People walk through a flooded street in Los Cayos, Haiti, on Saturday following a powerful earthquake that registered a magnitude of 7.2. Photo by Ralph Tedy Erol/EPA-EFE Aug. 16 (UPI) -- The death toll from the powerful earthquake that rocked Haiti over the weekend has killed 1,300 people and damaged or destroyed thousands of homes,…
The 7.2-magnitude quake was recorded on Saturday There were almost 1,100 deaths in the South administrative region, almost 250 in the Grand’Anse and Nippes regions and a couple in the Northwest.
So far, the quake has destroyed almost 14,000 homes and damaged another 14,000, officials say.
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