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The scale of devastation caused by floods in Haiti and the Dominican Republic is becoming apparent.

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The number of dead in the two countries, which share the island of Hispaniola, has been climbing all week and is now nearing 1,000.

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People in the Dominican Republic are calling this the worst natural disaster to have affected their nation in the last 100 years.

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Emergency officials say more than 13,000 people have been made homeless.

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Some communities have been literally swept away by the floods...

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...or by landslides, like this one which engulfed much of the Haitian town of Fonds Verettes.

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Even churches have not managed to escape the deluge.

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It is feared that many more victims still lie buried under the mud and the wreckage of homes.

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Some emergency aid is making its way to the worst affected regions.

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But no-one can be quite sure yet exactly what the final toll in terms of damage and human losses will be.