Hurricane Ike has killed 61 people in Haiti, including 57 in a single village, civil protection officials said in an updated toll given Monday.
"Fifty-seven people including many children aged one to seven are dead in Cabaret, three died in Gonaives and one further north," Nazaire Tide, a member of the Haiti's Office of Civilian Protection, told AFP.
Many houses were destroyed by flooding and mudslides in Cabaret, a village 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Port-au-Prince.
The town's food market was held Monday amid scenes of devastation, an AFP journalist saw. A huge mudslide left a gaping hole after carrying entire houses into a river.
One neighborhood was blanketed with a thick layer of mud that residents were trying to remove with shovels.
Uprooted palm trees were scattered on the ground near damaged houses, some without roofs, some having lost a section of wall.
More than 600 people have died in Haiti after four major storms hit the impoverished Caribbean nation in less than four weeks. Haiti's mountainous topography and deforestation make it especially vulnerable to landslides following heavy rainfall.
