Haiti death toll from Isaac now at 19 – AP

A government official says that Haiti’s death toll from Tropical Storm Isaac has jumped to 19, the Associated Press reported today.

Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste of the country’s Civil Protection Office gave few details on how each person died in the storm that drenched Haiti over the weekend.

That puts the total regional death toll from Tropical Storm Isaac at 21. Two people died in the neighbouring Dominican Republic after they were swept away in a river, AP said.