Residents carry a coffin containing the remains of a pregnant woman, a victim of Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, Haiti, on Oct. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Haitian authorities were still unsure of the extent of the disaster after Hurricane Matthew plowed into desperately poor Haiti with winds of 145 mph with some communities still cut off. But tens of thousands of homes were obliterated and the dead number in the hundreds.
A boat lies washed up amidst Haitian army buildings damaged by Hurricane Matthew, in a seaside fishing neighborhood in Port Salut, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Guillaume Silvera, a senior official with the Civil Protection Agency in the storm-blasted Grand-Anse Department, which includes Jeremie, said at least 522 deaths were confirmed there alone — not including people in several remote communities still cut off by collapsed roads and bridges.
National Civil Protection headquarters in Port-au-Prince, meanwhile, said Saturday its official count for the whole country was 336, which included 191 deaths in Grand-Anse.
Sadame rests a moment while removing mud of his destroyed house by the Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, in the west oh Haiti, on Oct. 8, 2016. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)
The U.N. humanitarian coordinator made an emergency appeal for nearly $120 million in aid to devastated Haiti on Monday as local aid officials struggled to get food, medicine and water to increasingly desperate communities still isolated almost a week after the blow from Hurricane Matthew.
Power was still out, water and food were scarce, and officials said that young men in villages along the road between the hard-hit cities of Les Cayes and Jeremie were putting up blockades of rocks and broken branches to halt convoys of vehicles bringing relief supplies.
A resident walks amidst damaged buildings and debris in a seaside fishing neighborhood almost completely destroyed by Hurricane Matthew, in Port Salut, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
One convoy carrying food, water and medications was attacked by gunmen in a remote valley where there had been a mudslide, said Frednel Kedler, coordinator for the Civil Protection Agency in the Grand-Anse department that includes Jeremie. He said authorities would try to reach marooned and desperate communities west of Jeremie on Monday.
Men push a motorbike through a street flooded by a river that overflowed from heavy rains caused by Hurricane Matthew in Leogane, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
U.N. officials said earlier that at least 1.4 million people across the region need assistance and that 2.1 million overall have been affected by the hurricane. Some 175,000 people remained in shelters Monday.
The agency said flooding has hampered efforts to reach the most affected areas, and that the hurricane has increased the risk of a “renewed spike” in the number of cholera cases. An ongoing cholera outbreak has already killed roughly 10,000 people and sickened more than 800,000 since 2010.
A girl watches as authorities arrive to evacuate people from her house in Tabarre, Haiti, on Oct. 3. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Residents carry food down a street strewn with rubble caused by Hurricane Matthew in Baracoa, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. The hurricane rolled across the sparsely populated tip of Cuba overnight, destroying dozens of homes in Cuba's easternmost city, Baracoa, leaving hundreds of others damaged. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Haitians wash clothes in a stream in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 8, 2011. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Homes destroyed and damaged by Hurricane Matthew in Jeremie, in western Haiti, on Oct. 7, 2016. (NICOLAS GARCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
Saint Anne church lays totally destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Camp Perrin, a district of Les Cayes, Haiti on Oct. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
A boy stands inside a church after it was damaged by Hurricane Matthew in Saint-Louis, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
A resident walks amidst damaged buildings and debris in a seaside fishing neighborhood almost completely destroyed by Hurricane Matthew, in Port Salut, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Cecile Jean stands in front of her home destroyed by Hurricane Matthew, in a seaside fishing neighborhood in Port Salut, Haiti, on Oct. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
A girl walks on a street damaged in hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, in western Haiti, on Oct. 7, 2016. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)
Homes destroyed and damaged by Hurricane Matthew in Jeremie, in western Haiti, on Oct. 7, 2016. (NICOLAS GARCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
Buildings destroyed and damaged by Hurricane Matthew in Jeremie, in western Haiti, on Oct. 7, 2016. The full scale of the devastation in hurricane-hit rural Haiti became clear as the death toll surged over 400, three days after Hurricane Matthew leveled huge swaths of the country's south. (NICOLAS GARCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
Residents clean a street with debris left by the floods caused by Hurricane Matthew in Jeremie, Haiti, on Oct. 8, 2016. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)
Mattresses and clothes dry in the sun, after being soaked by rains from Hurricane Matthew in the small village of Casanette, Haiti, on Oct. 8, 2016. The full scale of the devastation in hurricane-hit rural Haiti became clear as the death toll surged over 400, three days after Hurricane Matthew leveled huge swaths of the country's south. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)
A child collects water with a bucket in a home destroyed by Hurricane Matthew, in the small village of Casanette, Haiti, on Oct. 8, 2016. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)
The areas of Jeremie, Haiti, destroyed by Hurricane Matthew are seen from the air on Oct. 8, 2016. (NICOLAS GARCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
People walk past damaged buildings in a seaside fishing neighborhood almost completely destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Port Salut, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Residents repair their homes destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
People carry suitcases as they move to a safer area before the arrival of Hurricane Matthew, in the village Paraguay, Guantanamo, Cuba, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. A hurricane warning is in effect for Jamaica, Haiti, and the Cuban provinces of Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin, Granma and Las Tunas - as well as the southeastern Bahamas. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
A salvaged chair hangs in a tree amidst nearby homes destroyed by Hurricane Matthew, in a seaside fishing neighborhood of Port Salut, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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