Rescue workers dug through mud and debris on Wednesday for survivors and bodies as the death toll from devastating floods and landslides in the Dominican Republic and neighbouring Haiti climbed to more than 600.
Several hundred more people were unaccounted for after Monday's rivers of mud and swirling waters smashed houses in their path.
The flooding followed days of torrential rain on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola that the two countries share.
In the Dominican Republic, officials said the death toll had risen to 250, with almost all of the dead in Jimani, a town near the Haitian border where a river overflowed its banks before dawn and swept homes away as people slept. In Haiti, the death toll was about 360.
The dead included 158 at Fond Verettes, a town that was devastated by a river of mud, 200 in the south-east region and 2 in the south, at Port-a-Piment, Haitian Justice Minister and acting Interior Minister Bernard Gousse told Reuters.
Troops from a US-led peacekeeping force in Haiti were helping relief efforts there. On Tuesday, the force flew helicopter missions of government officials, relief workers and supplies to Fond Verettes.
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