Heavy rains lash Haiti quake survivors

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The search for survivors of a weekend earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people on Haiti resumed on Tuesday.

LES CAYES - The search for survivors of a weekend earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people on Haiti resumed on Tuesday after an overnight storm battered thousands left homeless with heavy rain before the weather front moved on.

Mathieu Jameson, deputy head of the committee formed by the tent city residents, said hundreds of people there were in urgent need of food shelter and medical care. Haitian authorities said on Monday that 1,419 deaths had been confirmed, with some 6,900 people injured. "We came from all over to help: from the north, from Port-au Prince, from everywhere," said Maria Fleurant, a firefighter from northern Haiti.

 

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