Several deaths reported in impoverished country still recovering from catastrophic 2010 quake(Screen shot from US Geological Survey website)A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, causing several deaths and toppling buildings in the disaster-plagued Caribbean nation still recovering from a devastating 2010 quake. They were flying outside,” said Port-au-Prince resident Sephora Pierre Louis, adding she was still in a state of shock. People are still outside in the street.”The earthquake comes as Haiti is already mired in intertwined political, humanitarian and security crises. It’s been years since such a big earthquake,” said Daniel Ross, a resident in the eastern Cuban city of Guantanamo. The 2010 quake destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes, as well as administrative buildings and schools, not to mention 60% of Haiti’s healthcare system.

Source: Bangkok Post August 14, 2021 14:17 UTC