Gonaives, Haiti ? The death toll from a tropical storm that devastated parts of Haiti rose to 622 late Monday as search crews recovered hundreds of bodies carried away by raging weekend floods or buried by mud or the ruins of their homes, officials said.

The bodies of at least 500 people killed by Tropical Storm Jeanne were filling morgues in Gonaives, with scores more killed in other villages and towns. Dozens more people are missing.

Two days after lashing Haiti, Jeanne regained hurricane strength over the open Atlantic on Monday but posed no immediate threat to land. Besides the deaths in Haiti, Jeanne has been blamed for at least 18 deaths in the Dominican Republic and seven in Puerto Rico.