Hurricane Matthew has left at least 122 people dead in Haiti, the country's embassy said on Thursday while suggesting the death toll could rise because some inaccessible areas have not yet been accounted for.
In addition, four people were also killed in the Dominican Republic and one each in Colombia and in the island chain of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The storm is currently in the Bahamas, where forecasters warned of "devastating impacts" from rain, wind and floods.
The storm is currently a catastrophic Category 4 with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph, according to a 2 p.m. ET update from the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Matthew was about 65 miles south-southeast of Freeport,the main city on Grand Bahama island. The storm also heavily impacted the capital Nassau on New Providence island — home to about 70 percent of the country's 250,000 residents.
The storm's center is expected to drop as much as 15 inches of rain and to create storm surges as high as 15 feet, with "life-threatening" surf and rip currents, the hurricane center said. The storm is expected to be near Freeport Thursday afternoon before moving to the east coast of Florida through Friday night.
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