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Junior(C) and his family are seen in the shelter at Peru School after their home was damaged from the rains of Hurrricane Matthew, in Port-au-Prince, on October 4, 2016.
Hurricane Matthew made landfall in southwestern Haiti early Tuesday, crashing ashore as a powerful Category Four storm, US weather forecasters said. The National Hurricane Center said Matthew made landfall as an "extremely dangerous" storm near the village of Les Anglais at around 7 am (1100 GMT) with maximum sustained winds of around 145 miles (230 kilometers) per hour.
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