Haiti earthquake: At least 2 killed and 200 homes destroyed after 5.3 magnitude earthquake | world News

In Anse-a-Veau, a small coastal town 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of the capital, Port-au-Prince, a woman was killed when a wall collapsed. In Fonds-des-Negres, 20 kilometers to the south, the second death was caused by a landslide.

At least two people were killed in a 5.3-magnitude earthquake that struck southwestern Haiti early Monday, officials told AFP, and the quake was followed by several aftershocks.

In Anse-a-Veau, a small coastal town 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of the capital, Port-au-Prince, a woman was killed when a wall collapsed. In Fonds-des-Negres, 20 kilometers to the south, the second death was caused by a landslide.

In the Nieps region, where the epicenter of the quake struck, nearly 200 homes were destroyed and about 600 more damaged, according to the local Civil Protection Directorate.

The Haitian Civil Protection Department did not announce the ages of the two victims.

Rescue teams reported that about 50 people were injured.

The quake was recorded at 8:16 a.m. local time (1316 GMT), felt by people in the capital and was followed by dozens of tremors, including a 5.1 Richter scale aftershock less than an hour later.

In August, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake killed more than 2,200 people and destroyed or severely damaged tens of thousands of homes in a country still recovering from a devastating 2010 earthquake.

Downtown Port-au-Prince has yet to be reconstructed twelve years after the disastrous 2010 earthquake, which killed more than 200,000 people and displaced 1.5 million.

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