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The may­or of a south­ern Hait­ian coastal town told The As­so­ci­at­ed Press that 25 peo­ple died af­ter a riv­er burst its banks and flood­ed near­by homes.

Dozens of homes in Pe­tit-Goâve col­lapsed, and peo­ple were still trapped un­der rub­ble as of Wednes­day morn­ing, May­or Jean Bertrand Sub­rème said.

“I am over­whelmed by the sit­u­a­tion,” he said as he plead­ed with the gov­ern­ment to help res­cue vic­tims.