Haiti mourns as families bury loved ones killed by hurricane
By DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press
Published: October 8, 2016, 4:27pm
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Women from the Laguerre family cry during the burial of Roberto Laguerre in Jeremie, Haiti, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016. Roberto, 32, died when the wall of a church next door to his home fell during Hurricane Matthew. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
JEREMIE, Haiti — As the pale blue coffin came into view, the grieving women flung themselves to the floor near a morgue that overlooked the hurricane-ravaged city of Jeremie, the apparent epicenter of Haiti’s growing humanitarian crisis.
They beat their fists and screamed, their distress growing more intense as attendants opened the door of the morgue on Saturday to bring out the body of Roberto Laguerre, who was killed next to his 3-year-old daughter when Hurricane Matthew roared over this city in southwest Haiti as a Category 4 storm earlier this week.
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