In photos: Southwest Haiti after Hurricane Matthew

The death toll rose to almost 140 on Thursday in what United Nations officials are calling the worst humanitarian crisis to hit impoverished Haiti since a devastating 2010 earthquake.

Por:Univision

1/16

A man carries a woman in his arms across the La Digue river in Petit Goave when a bridge was swept away during Hurricane Matthew, severing road transport to the southwest peninsula.

Héctor Retamal / Getty Images

2/16

Small towns along the western coast of Haiti suffered extreme damage from storm surge during Hurricane Matthew. This photo was tweeted by a United Nations aerial survey.

Logan Abassi/United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)

3/16

An aerial view of hard-hit Jeremie on the north coast of Haiti's southwestern peninsula. The eye of Matthew passed over the town of 40,000 damaging almost every home.

Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters

4/16

Aerial photo of of the coastal city of Jeremie after the passage of Hurricane Matthew.

Carlos García Rawlins/Reuters

5/16

Volunteers bury the dead in Jeremie one of the hardest hit citiies in Haiti's southwest

Carlos Garcia Rawlings/Reuters

6/16

Hurricane Matthew passed over the colonial coastal city of Jeremie on Tuesday causing extensive damage.

Carlos García Rawlins/Reuters

7/16

Almost all the homes in the town of Jeremie suffered damage from Hurricane Matthew.

Maarten Boute

8/16

A flooded river and destroyed houses are seen after Hurricane Matthew passes Jeremie, Haiti, October 5, 2016.

REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

9/16

A man and a woman pick through rubble of a home in Ile-a-Vache after the passage of Hurricane Matthew. The island of 10,000 people suffered massive damage to homes.

Samuel Altema

10/16

Matthew destroyed many homes and crops on Ile-a-Vache, a poor community of 10,000 people who make their living from agriculture and fishing

Samuel Altema

11/16

Ile-a-vache de Maarten Boute. Muchas casas son destruidos. La isla está sin comida y agua potable. El ejercito americana va a hacer un airdrop hoy (5) Download Open original More actions

Samuel Altema

12/16

Matthew ripped the roof from this church in Les Cayes, Haití.

Hector Retamal/Getty Images

13/16

A woman and her daughter in the ruins of their home in Les Cayes, Haití.

Dieu Nalio Chery/Ap

14/16

People gather next to a collapsed bridge after Hurricane Matthew passes Petit Goave, Haiti, October 5, 2016.

REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

15/16

The flooded streets of Les Cayes, Haiti.

Andrés Martínez Casares/Reuters

16/16

Man walking in Port-au-Prince slum, Cite Soleil, after Hurricane Matthew

HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images