At least 1,297 people were killed and some 2,800 injured by the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti this weekend
this weekend, aggravating the crisis of an increasingly chaotic country whose president was assassinated last month and where a coming tropical storm threatens even more devastation.occurred in the country’s southern peninsula
, said Jerry Chandler, head of Haiti’s civil-protection agency. More than 13,000 buildings in the area were destroyed, including churches, hospitals and at least two hotels, he said. “People are crying in the streets, the walls of homes have collapsed. It is the worse experience a person could live through,” said Linda Caracolis, a resident in the outskirts of the town of Jeremie. “People have lost their homes, their families. For the moment, we are on our own.”
The fatality count was expected to rise as Haitians frantically searched for hundreds of people still missing on Sunday. Compounding problems, some aid agencies in the capital of Port-au-Prince said they were reluctant to send relief efforts by road to the harder-hit south because of gangs that regularly extort and even kidnap drivers along the route.
“We are unable to ship goods to Les Cayes by road because shipments are attacked and hijacked,” said Akim Kikonda, the country representative of Catholic Relief Services. Instead, the charity intends to ship supplies to Les Cayes by sea using a program that is being set up by the World Food Programme, the United Nations’ food-assistance agency, he said.
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