Hurricane Sandy Images: Not just NYC, the Caribbean also suffered
Hurricane Sandy has left New York and other cities in US East coast battered. But the storm also caused considerable damage in the Caribbean islands with Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica being hit badly.
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People walk on a street littered with debris after Hurricane Sandy hit Santiago de Cuba. The Cuban government said that 11 people died when the storm barrelled across the island, most killed by falling trees or in building collapses in Santiago de Cuba province and neighbouring Guantanamo province. Desmond Boylan/Reuters
Residents wade through a flooded street caused by heavy rains from Hurricane Sandy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 25 October 2012. Hurricane Sandy rumbled across mountainous eastern Cuba and headed toward the Bahamas on Thursday as a Category 2 storm, bringing heavy rains and blistering winds. Dieu Nalio Chery/AP
A man salvages bricks from rubble on a street after hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba. Desmond Boylan/Reuters
Haitians walk through a street flooded by rains from Hurricane Sandy in Port-au-Prince. Hurricane Sandy, a late-season Atlantic storm unlike anything seen in more than two decades, slogged slowly toward the US East Coast on Friday after killing at least 41 people as it cut across the Caribbean. Swoan Parker/Reuters
The neighbourhood of Barquita is seen submerged in flood waters after days of heavy rain in Santo Domingo. Hurricane Sandy, a late-season Atlantic storm unlike anything seen in more than two decades, slogged slowly toward the US East Coast on Friday after killing at least 41 people as it cut across the Caribbean. Ricardo Rojas/Reuters