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Port-Au-Prince: The death toll in Haiti from Tropical Storm Hanna has risen 136, the head of the civil protection office said on Thursday.
Officials had earlier given a toll of 61 dead after Hanna pounded northern Haiti Monday and Tuesday.
The new toll, made public late Thursday by Alta Jean-Baptiste, head of Haiti's civil protection office, said that 102 of those who died were killed in northern Haiti, mostly in Gonaives.
Jean-Baptiste also said that flooding and landslides triggered by the heavy rain forced nearly 10,000 people into shelters.
The figure does not include the thousands evacuated from Gonaives, which has a population of 300,000.
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