GONAIVES, Haiti — Cemetery workers trudge through the water with a wooden cart, fetching dozens of bloated corpses from the muck and carting them off for burial. The city’s 15 police officers have buried dozens more, and nobody knows how many bodies were swept out to sea.
In this sodden city with no working morgue, nobody is counting the dead. And after four tropical storms in less than a month, Haiti’s death toll will never be known. Officials say at least 331 people have been killed in the storms.
Relief has been slow to arrive in Gonaives, with parts of the city still under water Tuesday and about 70,000 people remaining in shelters, according to the World Food Program.
On Tuesday, an amphibious U.S. Navy boat reached Gonaives with 140 metric tons of food from the USS Kearsarge.
