Environment & Climate
Witness to Matthew's destruction
U.N. photographer Logan Abassi shot these photos on Wednesday and Thursday after Hurricane Matthew passed over southwestern Haiti.
An aerial view of Jeremie taken from the helicopter on a recce fight on Thursday October 6.
Logan Abassi/MINUSTAH
On the water front of Jeremie where houses were battered by the storm surge.
Logan Abassi/MINUSTAH
Matthew left small villages flooded and entirely cut off during its passage across the southwest peninsula of Haiti.
Logan Abassi/MINUSTAH
Survivers begin to pick up and organize what is left of their belongings in Jeremie.
Logan Abassi UN/MINUSTAH
A woman falls trying to cross a flooded river.
Logan Abassi UN/MINUSTAH
Women walking down the street in Jeremie.
Logan Abassi UN/MINUSTAH
In Jeremie, which has about 40,000 inhabitants, almost all homes suffered damage.
Logan Abassi UN/MINUSTAH
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)
After the storm passed Haitians laid out wet clothing and bedding to dry in the ruins of their homes.
Logan Abassi/MINUSTAH
Homes by the sea were engulfed by storm surge from Hurricane Matthew
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A hillside on the outskirts of Jeremie.
Logan Abassi/MINUSTAH
Wet clothes out to dry outside destroyed homes following the passage of Matthew.
Logan Abassi/MINUSTAH
On the water front of Jeremie where houses were battered by the storm surge.
Logan Abassi/MINUSTAH
The aerial view of a hillside near Jeremie airport about 20 minutes outsie the town.
Logan Abassi/MINUSTAH
A school house on the outskirts of Jeremie was destroyed during the storm.
Logan Abassi/MINUSTAH
A woman being transported across a river where a bridge collapsed near Petit Goave one and half hours from Port-au-Prince on the road to the southwest.
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