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2 Babies Die In Fay-Soaked Haiti

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The Associated Press

Published: August 19, 2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Two babies were killed when a river surging with rain from Tropical Storm Fay toppled their crowded bus, a U.N. official said Monday, raising the storm's Caribbean death toll to at least 14.

U.N. peacekeepers arrived at the scene and confirmed that 41 passengers made it out safely, contrary to earlier reports that at least 30 passengers were feared dead, said Fred Blaise, a spokesman for the United Nations police force in Haiti. An accurate passenger count was impossible to come by.

Seven other people also died in storm-related flooding in Haiti, civil protection chief Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste said, and four deaths were blamed on the storm in the Dominican Republic.
Cuban authorities evacuated nearly 10,000 residents in five provinces, closed ports and suspended carnival celebrations in Cienfuegos. But their worst fear - a direct hit on Old Havana's dilapidated buildings - was not realized.

There were no reports of major damage or flooding, and most Cuban evacuees headed home Monday.

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