Hanna has already killed at least 25 people in Haiti, where rains inundated Gonaives, a city of 300,000 north of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said today in a telephone interview. Agence France- Presse said 61 had died.

"I don't know how much longer we will remain alive," Germain Michelet, a priest who is stranded by floodwaters on the second floor of a building in Gonaives, told AFP. "If we are forced to go through another night under these conditions, there will not be many survivors."