Rescue workers scrambled to find survivors after a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing at least 304 and toppling buildings.
People search through the rubble of what used to be the Manguier Hotel after an earthquake hit in Les Cayes, southwest Haiti.struck Haiti early Saturday, killing at least 304 and toppling buildings in the disaster-plagued Caribbean nation still recovering from a devastating 2010 quake.
Churches, businesses, schools and homes crumbled in the quake that trapped hundreds of victims under rubble and left at least 1,800 people injured, the country's civil protection agency said. Hours after the quake, the agency announced the death toll had jumped to 304, ticking upwards throughout the day from the first report of 29 fatalities.The long, initial quake was felt in much of the Caribbean, emanating from the epicentre at Haiti's southwestern peninsula."Lots of homes are destroyed, people are dead and some are at the hospital," 21-year-old Christella Saint Hilaire, who lives near the epicentre, told AFP.
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