Hurricane-triggered floods continue to cause damage in the Dominican Republic
Hurricane Maria aftermath
Thousands of people were still out of their homes, almost 1 million had no water, and 57 communities were experiencing communication outage, a report from the Emergency Operations Center (COE) said on Sunday.
River floodingcontinued tocausedamageas of Sunday in theDominicanRepublicdays after Hurricane Maria lashed the eastern and northeastern coast of the country.
Thousands of people were still out of their homes, almost 1 million had no water, and 57 communities were experiencing communication outage, a report from the Emergency Operations Center (COE) said on Sunday.
The most recent river to overflow was Yuna, the largest inDominicanterritory, isolating 15 communities from the provinces of Duarte and Sanchez Ramirez in the northeast, and paralyzing a stretch of road that connects the tourist city Samana in the northeast with the capital of Santo Domingo, according to Agencia EFE sources.
A total of 15,076 people had to stay in homes of relatives or friends, and another 941 were in official shelters after the disaster destroyed 188 homes, affected 861 and flooded 4,588.
Becauseof the hurricane, 942,185 people had no drinking water, while thousandscontinued to live in the dark due to power cut.
TheDominicanAir Forcecontinued its rescue operations in flooded areas.
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Hurricane Maria landed in Dominica on Sept. 18 at a speed of 260 kilometres per hour, killing at least 15 people and leaving at least another 20 missing.
Although Maria has moved away toward North Carolina of the United States, theDominican national l Office of Meteorologycontinued to maintain flood warnings for 12 provinces as rains wouldcontinueto pour in some areas of the country.