Foreign aid trickles in to rural Haiti amid struggle to count victims

People rest outside their home after tremors shook buildings, following Saturday's 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti August 19, 2021. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo

CAVAILLON, Haiti (Reuters) -A drip of foreign aid began to reach more rural areas of southwestern Haiti on Thursday, arriving five days after a powerful earthquake https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/magnitude-7-quake-strikes-western-haiti-usgs-2021-08-14 killed more than 2,000 and flattened tens of thousands of buildings into rubble.

Hundreds of people lined up to receive provisions from the U.N. World Food Programme at a camp in the rural town of Camp-Perrin for people displaced by Saturday's 7.2 magnitude quake. The official death toll stood at 2,189 but was expected to rise.