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Thu 05 May 2004Over 600 dead in Caribbean floodsDOMINICAN REPUBLIC/HAITI: Rescue workers dug through mud and debris yesterday for survivors and bodies as the death toll from devastating floods and landslides in the Dominican Republic and neighbouring Haiti climbed to more than 600.Several hundred more people were unaccounted for after Monday's rivers of mud and swirling waters smashed houses in their path.