Hurricane Matthew is almost wiped off the face of the earth Haiti. 269 people died in the Dominican Republic and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Officials report that the number of victims is likely to increase.

Haiti, still recovering from the catastrophic earthquake of 2010 which killed hundreds of thousands of people. Murad Wahba, the Deputy special representative of the UN Secretary General on Haiti, described Matthew as the "largest humanitarian event" after the earthquake.

Earlier it was reported that 4 people died in the Dominican Republic. Local authorities did not provide detailed information about how they died. Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti on Tuesday, but its devastating impact is only now coming to light.

At least 1,580 houses were flooded in the country, and about 3215 families were affected by the heavy storm, the Agency said civil defense of the country. More than 300 thousand people are in shelters across the country, said the United Nations. The Haitian pastor Louis Saint-Germain said that the storm tore the roofs off many buildings in the area.

In the storm, the electoral Commission has postponed presidential elections that were scheduled for Sunday. A new date has not been established.

A powerful storm passed over the capital of the Bahamas, Nassau, on Thursday afternoon. Officials said the hurricane caused flooding in the southern and Eastern coastal areas and structural damage to several resorts in Nassau. More than 30 homes have been washed away by a hurricane in the North-Eastern Cuban city, the place where Christopher Columbus first landed in the Americas. No deaths were registered as of Thursday evening, local time, as the area of the promenade were evacuated before the arrival of the Matthew.
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