ROSEAU – At least 19 people are feared dead and 25 others missing as Dominica yesterday slowly emerged from the battering by Tropical Storm Erika.
“I can’t tell you words to describe it,” Minister of Information Kelva Darroux told radio listeners.
“I have never seen anything like that in my life.”
The island took a pounding from the fifth named storm of the 2015 Atlantic Hurricane season on Thursday, resulting in severe damage to infrastructure and causing widespread flooding and landslides.
Most of the deaths were reported in the south-east village of Petite Savanne, but there were also reports of five fatalities in Bath Estate, just on the outskirts of the capital, and Good Hope, a small fishing farming community located on the island’s east coast.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, who said the priority of his administration now is to locate all missing people, spent the day touring the affected communities, some of which remained cut off because the rains have destroyed the roads leading to the villages. (CMC)
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