BREAKING: Haiti's earthquake death toll soars, with at least 724 people dead and a minimum of 2,800 injured, according to civil defense officials. The magnitude 7.2 quake destroyed hundreds of homes and displaced thousands of people.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry said he was rushing aid to areas where towns were destroyed and hospitals overwhelmed with patients. A former senator rented a private airplane to move injured people from Les Cayes to Port-au-Prince for medical assistance.
“I have eight kids, and I was looking for the last one,” Jean-Claude Daniel said through tears. “I will never see her again alive. The earthquake destroyed my life. It took a child away from me.” As he boarded a plane bound for Les Cayes, Henry said he wanted “structured solidarity” to ensure the response was coordinated to avoid the confusion that followed the devastating 2010 earthquake, when aid was slow to reach residents after as many as 300,000 Haitians were killed.
Humanitarian workers said gang activity in the seaside district of Martissant, just west of the Haitian capital, also was complicating relief efforts. People in Port-au-Prince felt the tremor and many rushed into the streets in fear, although there did not appear to be damage there.
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