Story highlights
- At least 336 people have died since the storm hit
- Matthew made landfall in Haiti on Tuesday as a Category 4 hurricane
(CNN)Hurricane Matthew has left behind widespread destruction across Haiti and killed hundreds in its path, and officials fear the death toll could increase as aid workers reach the worst-hit areas.
"The death toll is rising on an hourly basis as aid workers and authorities get into these really hard-hit regions where not only communication and power were knocked out, but the roads were knocked out, so there has really been no way in," CNN International Correspondent Shasta Darlington reported from Port-au-Prince on Saturday morning.
At least 336 people have died since Matthew made landfall in Haiti on Tuesday as a Category 4 hurricane, a spokesman for Haiti's Civil Protection Service, Joseph Edgard Celestin, told CNN.
"Four people are missing, 211 are injured and more than 60,000 people are now displaced from the killer storm," he said.
"We do not know the exact number; we cannot find all the people," Haitian senator Herve Fourcand, told CNN on Saturday.
Other media outlets report much higher deaths. A count by Reuters, based on information from local civil protection officials, put the death toll well over 800.
"It's only now that we're beginning to really understand the extent of the devastation," Darlington said.
Photos: Hurricane Matthew pummels Haiti
A man stands in the remnants of a house destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in the southern town of Les Cayes on Monday, October 10. Matthew wreaked havoc in Haiti, killing hundreds, destroying homes and knocking out electricity in the impoverished Caribbean nation. More than 1.4 million people are in need of urgent assistance, a UN official says.
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Two young men who lost their homes awake from a tent in the courtyard of a school where they took shelter in Port Salut on October 10.
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A woman sits in debris where her house once stood in Les Cayes on October 10.
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A group works to clear debris from the streets in Les Anglais on October 10.
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A man uses salvaged material to build a makeshift roof for his damaged house in Port-a-Piment on October 10.
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People sick with cholera receive medical assistance at a hospital in Jeremie on October 10. The destruction from Matthew has accelerated the cholera epidemic in Haiti and undermined strides made in fighting the waterborne disease, the country's leader says.
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People cross one of the many southern coastal rivers where bridges were knocked out or damaged near Port-a-Piment on October 10.
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