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By REUTERS
Published: August 18, 2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) — About 50 people died on Sunday when a bus tried to cross a river in Haiti that was swollen with rain from a tropical storm and was swept away, witnesses said.
Two dozen survivors were pulled from the Riviere Glace in Grand-Anse Province, said Oreste André, mayor of the town of Bomont, where the accident occurred. “The river swept them away as if they were driftwood,” Mr. Andre said by telephone.
He said the people who had been rescued survived by climbing onto the roof of the sunken bus. The dead, who a witness said included a dozen children, were trapped inside.
Four other people in Haiti and at least one in the neighboring Dominican Republic were killed by the tropical storm, Fay, which was moving toward Cuba and Florida, possibly as a hurricane.
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