Ike's floods kill 48, cut off aid to parts of Haiti

Haitians took to their roofs to escape rising floodwaters for the second time in a week on Sunday as squalls from Hurricane Ike killed 48 people and collapsed a bridge that cut the last land route into the starving city of Gonaives.

Sunday's victims all came in the Cabaret area north of Port-au-Prince, civil defense director Maria-Alta Jean Baptiste said. They pushed Haiti's death toll to at least 306 from four storms that have hit the impoverished Caribbean country in less than a month.

Witnesses in Cabaret said floodwaters rushed into homes in the middle of the night, crushing walls and reaching chest-high levels before receding Sunday morning and leaving everything caked in mud.

In the Always Funeral Home, 21 mud-crusted bodies were piled in a small room, unclaimed. Two of them were pregnant, one still clutching a small girl to her chest.

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