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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A powerful storm that ripped through Haiti’s battered capital destroyed thousands of tents in the homeless camps where more than 1.3 million people live eight months after the earthquake destroyed their homes, shelter officials said Saturday.
The death toll from Friday afternoon’s storm stood at six people, including two children, and hundreds of people were injured, said Civil Protection chief Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste.
Preliminary U.N. estimates had more than 8,000 tents damaged or destroyed. The organization said it had distributed 5,000 tarps.
