<p><span style="font-family: pragmatica-web, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.14000000059604645px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Residents gather outside their destroyed home on the road to Port Salut, in Haiti. The area took the full force of Hurricane Matthew, which left many people displaced.</span></p>
Residents gather outside their destroyed home on the road to Port Salut, in Haiti. The area took the full force of Hurricane Matthew, which left many people displaced.
Photograph by Andrew McConnell, Panos for National Geographic
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Pictures Reveal Hurricane Matthew's Destruction in Haiti
As the Category 4 storm barrels north across the Caribbean, photographs show the destruction in its wake.
What is already evident, however, is that the Category 4 hurricane, which struck Haiti on October 4, has leveled another blow of destruction on an island nation still reeling from the 2010 earthquake and a subsequent cholera crisis.
"Haiti was already struggling, so it doesn't have a lot of capacity to respond to the hurricane," says Andrew McConnell, a photojournalist who is on the scene. "Yet it may take the brunt of it."
Haitian officials have reported nearly nine hundred deaths so far, yet information has only
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