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


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  • Thursday, 19 Aug 2021

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.

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