LES ANGLAIS, Haiti: Its bell tower and yellow walls a sharp contrast with Haiti's blue tropical sky, the historic Immaculee Conception church was the pride of Les Anglais, until it was destroyed by an earthquake Saturday, burying several faithful inside.
On August 14, at exactly 8.29am , a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southern Haiti, reducing the church's facade and steeple to a pile of rubble in seconds."I had just finished celebrating the 6.30am morning mass and had entered the presbytery to have coffee before returning to celebrate baptisms" when the quake struck, said parish priest Wilson Exantus Andre.
"The oldest of the deceased was 24 years old. What is hard is that a woman who has only two children, 18 years old and 3 years old, lost them both," the priest, still in shock, told AFP on Monday.The massive quake killed more than 1,400 people across Haiti, according to a preliminary official report out Monday.
The earthquake struck about 160km to the west of the densely populated capital Port-au-Prince, which was devastated in a massive 2010 quake. "It was a beautiful church with very beautiful architecture," said the priest."It was part of the national heritage, it was the pride of the people of Les Anglais, who never missed an opportunity to talk about it."Only part of the nave and the corrugated iron roof withstood the earthquake and its incessant aftershocks.
Two people trapped under the rubble were rescued with help from heavy equipment rushed in by workers with a Taiwanese construction company that happened to be working nearby, the priest said.Stunned residents of the coastal hamlet exchanged stories of what they lost in the quake outside the church ruins.They each spoke of relatives killed during the disaster, as nearby a lone child's shoe, black in color but now covered in white dust, lay in the church square.
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