TROPICAL STORM ERIKA has left a trail of death and destruction in Dominica.
Up to last night four people had been confirmed dead, and another 20 were still missing as aid workers continued to search the areas affected by flooding and mudslides, which resulted from heavy rains.
Erika dumped 15 inches of rain on the island from early yesterday morning.
The Associated Press quoted police superintendent Daniel Carbon as saying that three of the deaths occurred during a mudslide in the south-east of the island. Authorities recovered the bodies of an elderly blind man and two children from their home.
A fourth death occurred in the capital of Roseau. The man was found near his home following a mudslide but the cause of death has not yet been determined, Carbon said.
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