Storm-battered Haiti cleans up the mess

HAITANS were mopping up the muddy wreckage left by Tomas today, after the killer storm swept through the impoverished nation as a hurricane, amid concern it could worsen a cholera epidemic.

But despite drenching Haiti and prompting evacuations of displaced refugees who had nowhere to go after January's devastating earthquake, Tomas appeared to have spared the flimsy tent camps that are home to over a million people.