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Humanitarian crisis looms as Haiti deaths rise

Smashed buildings, shattered infrastructure, ruined crops, dead livestock and the threat of cholera: Haiti is facing a daunting humanitarian crisis as the death toll from Hurricane Matthew rises beyond 800.

Aerial images showed the destruction wreaked by the worst hurricane to hit Haiti in half a century — and the strongest Caribbean storm in a decade .

“What I saw today was heartbreaking,” said Mourad Wahba, the UN’s resident humanitarian co-ordinator, after a flight over some of the affected areas on Thursday. “I just hope we have the means to help the people — they will need everything into the next six months.”

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