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An earthquake rocked Haiti's southern region early Tuesday morning, killing at least three people and injuring several others.struck at 5:11 a.m. local time about 5 miles from Les Abricots, west of the city of Jeremie. It was reportedly a shallow tremor, measured preliminarily at just 6 miles below the surface.
"I thought the whole house was going to fall on top of me," Eric Mpitabakana, a World Food Program official in Jeremie, told the Associated Press in a phone interview.
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