About 30,000 people are in temporary shelters in 12 towns of the South department. At least 10,000 have been left without homes.
Meanwhile Radio Television Caraibes is reporting an even higher death toll — 283. According to Radio Television Caraibes, almost 35,000 have been left without homes amid the storm.
An earlier death toll from Matthew in Haiti stood at 108, according to the Haitian Embassy in Washington, DC.
On Wednesday, the Haitian Embassy said five people had been killed amid the storm and there was significant damage to the country’s infrastructure and homes.
Hurricane Matthew, the most damaging storm to hit the Caribbean in a decade, is currently moving through the central Bahamas on a path toward Florida's Atlantic coast.
The hurricane is the worst natural disaster in Haiti since the country’s deadly 2010 earthquake.
