Hti - DR: Rising toll in Hispañola flood

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The death toll from devastating floods and landslides in Haiti and the Dominican Republic rose to at least 1,950 on Wednesday.

The toll rose dramatically with the discovery of more than 1,000 bodies in Mapou, a southeastern Haitian town where communications are poor, said Margareth Martin, the head of the civil protection office for Haiti's southeast region.

Haiti's death toll stood at about 1,660, including 1,000 in Mapou, 500 elsewhere in Haiti's southeast region, 158 in the riverside town of Fond Verettes, and two in the south, at Port-a-Piment.

Authorities in the neighboring Dominican Republic said they had recovered 300 bodies.