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A boy injured after Saturday s 7.2 magnitude quake cries while being treated at the Ofatma Hospital, in Les Cayes, Haiti August 18, 2021. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo
Haiti has recorded more than 2,100 deaths following a powerful earthquake that wounded more than 12,000 and destroyed tens of thousands of homes, while over 115,000 families displaced by the disaster continue to seek refuge.
LES CAYES (Reuters) -Tremors shook buildings late on Wednesday in the southern Haitian city of Les Cayes, a Reuters witness said, a few days after a devastating earthquake killed almost 2,200 people across the Caribbean nation and injured thousands more. A police officer on patrol in Les Cayes said there were no immediate reports of further deaths or damage in the region, which is still reeling from the 7.2 magnitude earthquake on Saturday morning. Across the seaside city, families were sleeping on mattresses in the streets. Haitian authorities said late on Wednesday that the official death toll from the quake had risen to 2,189. The poorest country in the Americas, Haiti is still recovering from a 2010 quake that killed over 200,000. (Reporting by Ricardo Arduengo and Laura Gottesdiener in Les CayesEditing by Shri Navaratnam)