大型ハリケーン「マシュー」が10月初頭からカリブ海諸国を直撃し、ハイチでは少なくとも136人が死亡した。当局も被害の全容を把握しておらず、被害はさらに拡大するおそれがある。ガーディアンなどが報じた。
CNNによると、ハリケーンは4日、ハイチに上陸し、とりわけ建物が脆弱な最貧困層の地域に壊滅的な被害を与えている。
「最も懸念されているのは、全体像を把握していないことだ。被害がどれほど深刻なのかを理解するために必要な情報が入手できてない」と、支援団体「メルシー・コープス」のクリスティ・デラフィールド氏は述べた。「橋が流され、地滑りが発生し、携帯電話の通信が利用できなくなっている。（特に被害が大きい）ハイチ南部に行く必要がある」
マイアミ・ヘラルドによると、ハイチ南西部ジェレミーに住むアンドレ・モイーズさんは「私たちはすべてを失った。家畜も、収穫物も、書類も、すべてだ」と語った。
国連児童基金（ユニセフ）では、ハイチの子供400万人が被災する可能性があり、感染症の拡大が懸念されると警告している。
ハイチでは9日に予定されていた大統領選挙が延期された。
ハリケーン「マシュー」は、5段階に区分されるハリケーンの強さのうち、「カテゴリー４」で、アメリカ南部から東海岸に接近しており、フロリダ、サウスカロライナ、ノースカロライナ、ジョージアで非常事態宣言が出ている。
ハイチ南西部の洪水で浸水した通りで、子供をおんぶして歩く母親(AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
ハリケーンで破壊されたハイチ南西部のジェレミーの市街地 (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)
ハイチ南西部のクロワ・マルシェ・ア・テレで、ハリケーンの直撃を受けて家を吹き飛ばされた家族 (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)
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ハリケーン「マシュー」、ハイチで死者多数
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People try to rebuild their destroyed houses after Hurricane Matthew passes Jeremie, Haiti, October 6, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (credit:Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters)
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A motorcyclist rides past a destroyed church after Hurricane Matthew passed Jeremie, Haiti, October 6, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (credit:Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters)
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People try to rebuild their destroyed house after Hurricane Matthew passed Jeremie, Haiti, October 6, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (credit:Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters)
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A view of destroyed houses after Hurricane Matthew passed Jeremie, Haiti, October 6, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY (credit:Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters)
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Kids play in a temporary shelter after staying at Hotel Villa Mimosa where about 200 people were displaced during Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 6, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares (credit:Andres Martinez Casares / Reuters)
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Men clear a fallen tree from the Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, October 6, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares (credit:Andres Martinez Casares / Reuters)
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A child stands on a street, after Hurricane Matthew passes Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October 5, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (credit:Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters)
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A woman looks for valuables through the garbage in a flooded canal after Hurricane Matthew passes Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October 5, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (credit:Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters)
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An aerial view of a collapsed bridge after Hurricane Matthew passes Petit Goave, Haiti, October 5, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (credit:Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters)
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Girls hold hands as they help each other wade through a flooded street after the passing of Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Two days after the storm rampaged across the country\'s remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers still lack a clear picture of what they fear is the country\'s biggest disaster in years. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A resident repairs his home destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Two days after the storm rampaged across the country\'s remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers still lack a clear picture of what they fear is the country\'s biggest disaster in years. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A resident runs in as flooded street as Hurricane Matthew roars over Baracoa, Cuba, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. The dangerous Category 4 storm blew ashore around dawn in Haiti. It unloaded heavy rain as it swirled on toward a lightly populated part of Cuba and the Bahamas. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People stand in a street flooded by a nearby river overflowing from the heavy rains caused by Hurricane Matthew, in Leogane, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. Rescue workers in Haiti struggled to reach cutoff towns and learn the full extent of the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew as the storm began battering the Bahamas on Wednesday and triggered large-scale evacuations along the U.S. East Coast. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A structure lays on the ground, brought down by the winds of Hurricane Matthew in Leogane, Haiti. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Matthew slammed into Haiti\'s southwestern tip with howling, 145 mph winds tearing off roofs in the poor and largely rural area, uprooting trees and leaving rivers bloated and choked with debris. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A man cuts a tree felled by Hurricane Matthew, outside the cathedral in Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Two days after the storm rampaged across the country\'s remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers still lack a clear picture of what they fear is the country\'s biggest disaster in years. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Residents arrange clothes soaked by Hurricane Matthew on tombs at a cemetery in Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. Two days after the storm rampaged across the country\'s remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers still lack a clear picture of what they fear is the country\'s biggest disaster in years. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People wade through a street flooded by a nearby river overflowing from the heavy rains caused by Hurricane Matthew, in Leogane, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. Rescue workers in Haiti struggled to reach cutoff towns and learn the full extent of the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew as the storm began battering the Bahamas on Wednesday and triggered large-scale evacuations along the U.S. East Coast. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A man begins the task of removing mud from his home flooded by Hurricane Matthew, in Grand Goave, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. Rescue workers in Haiti struggled to reach cutoff towns and learn the full extent of the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew as the storm began battering the Bahamas on Wednesday and triggered large-scale evacuations along the U.S. East Coast. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A woman carries a child through a waterlogged street as they head to a shelter under the pouring rain triggered by Hurricane Matthew in Leogane, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Matthew slammed into Haiti\'s southwestern tip with howling, 145 mph winds tearing off roofs in the poor and largely rural area, uprooting trees and leaving rivers bloated and choked with debris. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A man rides a bicycle past a tree uprooted by the winds of Hurricane Matthew in Leogane, Haiti. Tuesday Oct. 4, 2016. Matthew slammed into Haiti\'s southwestern tip with howling, 145 mph winds Tuesday, tearing off roofs in the poor and largely rural area, uprooting trees and leaving rivers bloated and choked with debris. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A vehicles sits next to a house, stranded in the flood waters caused by Hurricane Matthew, in Leogane, Haiti. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Matthew slammed into Haiti\'s southwestern tip with howling, 145 mph winds tearing off roofs in the poor and largely rural area, uprooting trees and leaving rivers bloated and choked with debris. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A house with its roof torn off by the winds caused by Hurricane Matthew stands in Leogane, Haiti. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Matthew slammed into Haiti\'s southwestern tip with howling, 145 mph winds tearing off roofs in the poor and largely rural area, uprooting trees and leaving rivers bloated and choked with debris. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A girl watches as authorities arrive to evacuate people from her house in Tabarre, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. The center of Hurricane Matthew is expected to pass near or over southwestern Haiti on Tuesday, but the area is already experiencing rain from the outer bands of the storm. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People stand on the coast watching the surf produced by Hurricane Matthew, on the outskirts of Kingston, Jamaica, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. A hurricane warning is in effect for Jamaica, Haiti, and the Cuban provinces of Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, Granma and Las Tunas - as well as the southeastern Bahamas. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Cooking pots are seen in a destroyed house after the passing of Hurricane Matthew, in Sous Roche in Les Cayes, Southwest Haiti, on October 6, 2016.\nThe storm killed at least 108 people in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, with the final toll expected to be much higher. / AFP / HECTOR RETAMAL (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:HECTOR RETAMAL via Getty Images)
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Stanley stands in his destroyed house after the passing of Hurricane Matthew, in Croix Marche-a-Terre, in Southwest Haiti, on October 6, 2016.\nThe storm killed at least 108 people in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, with the final toll expected to be much higher. / AFP / HECTOR RETAMAL (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:HECTOR RETAMAL via Getty Images)
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A family prepares food in front of a destroyed house after Hurricane Matthew, in Croix Marche-a-Terre, in Southwest Haiti, on October 6, 2016.\nThe storm killed at least 108 people in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, with the final toll expected to be much higher. / AFP / HECTOR RETAMAL (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:HECTOR RETAMAL via Getty Images)
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Commuters make their way past a closed gas station in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, on October 6, 2016, ahead of hurricane Matthew.\nSome three million people on the US southeast coast faced urgent evacuation Thursday as monstrous Hurricane Matthew -- now blamed for more than 100 deaths in Haiti alone -- bore down for a direct hit on Florida. / AFP / Jewel SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JEWEL SAMAD via Getty Images)
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Commuters make their way through heavy rain in Jacksonville, Florida, on October 6, 2016, ahead of hurricane Matthew.\nSome three million people on the US southeast coast faced urgent evacuation Thursday as monstrous Hurricane Matthew -- now blamed for more than 100 deaths in Haiti alone -- bore down for a direct hit on Florida. / AFP / Jewel SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JEWEL SAMAD via Getty Images)
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A young man walks on a palm tree in front of a destroyed house after Hurricane Matthew, in Croix Marche-a-Terre, in Southwest Haiti, on October 6, 2016.\nHurricane Matthew has claimed at least 108 lives in Haiti, Interior Minister Francois Anick Joseph told AFP Thursday. / AFP / HECTOR RETAMAL (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:HECTOR RETAMAL via Getty Images)
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The destroyed backyard of a house where the habitants dry their clothes after Hurricane Matthew, in Croix Marche-a-Terre, in Les Cayes, in the Southwest of Haiti, on October 6, 2016.\nHurricane Matthew has claimed at least 108 lives in Haiti, Interior Minister Francois Anick Joseph told AFP Thursday. / AFP / HECTOR RETAMAL (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:HECTOR RETAMAL via Getty Images)
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A man takes wood from trees that fell during Hurricane Matthew, in Croix Marche-a-Terre, in Les Cayes, in the Southwest oh Haiti, on October 6, 2016.\nHurricane Matthew has claimed at least 108 lives in Haiti, Interior Minister Francois Anick Joseph told AFP Thursday. / AFP / HECTOR RETAMAL (Photo credit should read HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:HECTOR RETAMAL via Getty Images)
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A general view of Miami as people wait for Hurricane Matthew to come ashore October 6, 2016 in Miami, Florida. Some three million people on the US southeast coast faced an urgent evacuation order Thursday as monstrous Hurricane Matthew -- now blamed for more than 100 deaths in Haiti alone -- bore down for a direct hit on Florida. U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday declared a state of emergency in Florida as the southern state was embracing itself for Hurricane Matthew, one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in almost a decade. (Photo by Manuel Mazzanti/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (credit:NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Hurricane Matthew Bears Down On Atlantic Coast Of Florida(34 of34)
A general view of Miami as people wait for Hurricane Matthew to come ashore October 6, 2016 in Miami, Florida. Some three million people on the US southeast coast faced an urgent evacuation order Thursday as monstrous Hurricane Matthew -- now blamed for more than 100 deaths in Haiti alone -- bore down for a direct hit on Florida. U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday declared a state of emergency in Florida as the southern state was embracing itself for Hurricane Matthew, one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in almost a decade. (Photo by Manuel Mazzanti/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (credit:NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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