An expedition of United Nations officials were dispatched via two helicopters to evaluate the damage to the island of “Tortuga”. A radio transmission was sent back to base on the island of Haiti. The message stated “we can’t find the island”. It is reported the tandem UN helicopters circled for a long period, most likely in stark disbelief nothing was to be found. Not a trace of life or land. It is now reported all 26,000 may have perished.

I’m not sure I have ever heard of such a disaster. I know of tsunami’s having killed hundreds, maybe even a few thousand, but I have never heard of a whole community being wiped out in minutes. Total families are gone. A complete island missing. And a hurricane who has yet to see the end of its deadly way.

The Russian news agency “Gorodfm” filed the following report:

(As translated) “United Nations helicopters made flight over that area but have seen only storming sea. The area of Tortuga is 180 square kilometers; population is made 26 000 human beings. Today helicopters of the United Nations will make repeated flight of region.”

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"Jeanne" devours island Turtle

Noticiasdot.com, Tuesday, 21 September 2004

An expedition of United Nations has been transferred to the island of the Turtle, in the North coast of Haiti, to evaluate the effects of the storm "Jeanne" when being afraid that it has disappeared.

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Agencies - In a first recognition with helicopters, cash of the Mission of Stabilization of the United Nations (MINUSTAH) could not find the island, in which 26,000 people reside, reason why she has been decided to send a new expedition.

Haitian prime minister, Gerard Latortue, will possibly comprise of that expedition.

Haiti-PressNetwork agency, that mentions Latortue, informed today into which it is even afraid that the island has been able to disappear by the strong surge caused by the storm.

According to the same source, the Haitian minister of the Interior, Hérard Abraham, showed his preoccupation by the luck which they have been able to run the inhabitants of the Turtle, of 180 kilometers square.

The passage of the storm "Jeanne" by Haiti the past Sunday has caused more than 500 deaths and hundreds of wounded, according to the first balance that, according to the authorities of this country, are provisional and can be much more tragic according to advance the hours.

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