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Floods unleashed by torrential rains swept through a Dominican Republic farming town Monday, killing about 100 people and leaving dozens of others feared dead, officials said.
Bodies were piled in a hospital’s makeshift morgue in the western town of Jimani near the Haitian border. A reporter for The Associated Press estimated there were about 100 bodies.
National Emergency Commission Director Radhames Lora Salcedo said as many as 150 others were missing and feared dead.
Rain drenched the community early on Monday, forcing the Solie River to burst its banks.
