DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/ HAITI: AID HANDED OUT TO FLOOD VICTIMS /FRENCH TROOPS ARRIVE TO HELP AID EFFORT

Record ID: 648756

  • Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/ HAITI: AID HANDED OUT TO FLOOD VICTIMS /FRENCH TROOPS ARRIVE TO HELP AID EFFORT
  • Date: 29th May 2004
  • Summary: (W1) JIMANI, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (MAY 29, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. AERIAL OF FLOODED AREA 0.03 2. AERIAL OF PEOPLE WAITING FOR FOOD 0.06 3. SCU MARINE WATCHING THE DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD FROM THE AIR 0.08 4. SLV RESIDENTS IN THE FLOODED AREA 0.11 5. VARIOUS OF DIGGER CLEARING THE AREA 0.16 6. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CLEANING 0.21 7. VARIOUS OF DESTROYED HOUSES 0.25 8. SLV VIEW FROM INTERIOR OF DAMAGED HOUSE 0.28 9. SLV MAN PUSHING WHEELBARROW 0.30 10. VARIOUS MORE OF AREA DESTROYED BY FLOODS 0.40 11. SLV INTERIOR OF DESTROYED HOUSE 0.41 12. GENERAL SHOT OF DESTROYED HOUSE 0.45 13. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) RESIDENT AMPARO GONZALEZ SAYING: "Anita was rescued with four boys and Unes [another relative] stayed here and died." 0.51 14. SLV RESIDENTS TALKING ABOUT THE TRAGEDY 0.50 15. GENERAL SHOT OF DEVASTATED ZONE 1.01 (W8) JIMANI, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (MAY 29, 2004) (REUTERS) 16. VARIOUS INTERIORS OF DESTROYED HOME 1.04 17. VARIOUS OF RESIDENTS RECEIVING AID/ FIGHTING FOR AID 1.13 18. SCU SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN RESIDENT SAYING: "All of these people are Haitian - people who are not from here - who have not lost as much." 1.19 (W8) PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (MAY 29, 2004) (REUTERS) 19. VARIOUS AERIALS OF DESTROYED AREA 1.25 20. WIDE OF BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE PLANE LANDING 1.28 21. VARIOUS OF CROWD 1.34 22. SLV BRAZILIAN SOLDIERS 1.35 23. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CARRYING AWAY SACKS OF AID 1.45 24. SLV BRAZILIAN PLANE 1.47 24. SLV BRAZILIAN SOLDIERS WITH EQUIPMENT 1.51 25. CLOSE OF PLANE 1.53 (U1) JIMANI, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (MAY 29, 2004) (REUTERS) 26. VARIOUS OF FRENCH TROOPS IN CAMP AT FLOOD ZONE 2.17 27. CLOSE OF FRENCH FLAG PATCH ON SOLDIER'S UNIFORM 2.22 28. SLV TROOPS PREPARING FOOD 2.26 29. VARIOUS OF FRENCH ARMY VEHICLE WITH FRENCH FLAGS ON IT 2.32 30. WIDE OF TENTS SET UP BY FRENCH SOLDIERS AS TEMPORARY HOUSING FOR FLOOD VICTIMS 2.35 30. CLOSE OF FRENCH FLAG ON TENT 2.37 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: JIMANI, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/ FOND VERETTES AND PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
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  • Country: Haiti Dominican Republic
  • Reuters ID: LVA9TM5SE021YBOGMCLENHPKDWJK
  • Story Text: Tonnes of food and drinking water is handed out to
    residents of flood-devastated Haitian and Dominican towns.

    French troops join the recovery effort.




    Victims of massive flooding in the Dominican
    Republic began receiving aid on Saturday (May 29).

    More than 350 people were killed in flooding last week
    in the town of Jimani, which borders Haiti.

    Meanwhile, a 4.4 earthquake hit Jimani on Saturday as
    foreign military helicopters shuttled tons of food and
    drinking water to the town. Dominican emergency authorities
    did not report any further damage.

    French troops joined the recovery effort. Twenty-six
    French soldiers arrived to the border town of Jimani from
    Haiti, where it was participating in a U.S.-led
    peacekeeping force sent to Haiti to restore order after
    ex-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in February.


    On Saturday, the French troops brought food and water
    to the devastated town and set up tents to shelter dozens
    of Dominican soldiers sent to help with relief efforts.

    The French division left Jimani on Saturday afternoon
    to return to Haiti, where they will join U.S. Marines and
    Brazilian troops to help recover and rebuild several towns
    in Haiti destroyed by the flooding.

    With roads to stricken areas impassable in may places,
    helicopters have been the only way to reach survivors from
    the worst natural disaster in years on the Caribbean island
    of Hispaniola that is shared by Haiti and the Dominican
    Republic.

    Foreign military helicopters shuttled tonnes of food
    and drinking water to flood-devastated Jimani on the
    Dominican Republic-Haitian border. Some 350 people were
    killed in the Dominican Republic, mostly in Jimani. Aid
    workers and officials have said the toll could rise as more
    bodies are found in the mud and debris.

    Residents trying to recover from the flooding lined up
    for food and scuffles broke out for the aid. Several
    Dominicans claimed that Haitians from across the border
    were unfairly receiving aid.

    "All of these people are Haitian - people who are not
    from here - who have not lost as much," said one Dominican.

    Meanwhile, in the Haitian town of Fond Verettes, U.S.

    Marines and aid organizations help hand out food. In Fond
    Verettes alone, some 8,500 people needed food, most of them
    made homeless by the disaster, said Inigo Alvarez, a
    spokesman in Haiti for the World Food Programme.

    The death toll in Haiti stood at about 1,800.

    In Port-au-Prince, the first Brazilian troop contingent
    arrived on Saturday morning at Tabarre international
    airport. Brazilian troops will lead the operation that
    takes over from a 3,600-strong interim force led by the
    United States on Tuesday (June 1). The U.S.-led force
    entered Haiti in February after a revolt killed more than
    200 people and forced the removal of former President
    Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Brazil is prepared to keep its
    1,200 troops in Haiti in command of a U.N. peacekeeping
    force for longer than the six months approved by the United
    Nations.


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