Matthew's 145 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds uprooted trees, billboards and mobile phone towers as the storm's eye passed close to Les Cayes early on Tuesday on Haiti's picturesque southwestern coast, while the surging sea tossed fishing boats from the beach high on to land. Most houses in Les Cayes were left roofless, with many completely inhabitable.
A bridge in Haiti connecting Port-au-Prince with southern Haiti collapses. The storm has killed at least nine people in the Caribbean.