'Everyone was crying': Grieving Haitians bury their dead a week after quake

People carry coffins during the funeral of four family members after the earthquake that took place on August 14th, in Marceline near Les Cayes, Haiti August 21, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Romero

MARCELINE, Haiti (Reuters) -Families gathered in villages in southwestern Haiti this weekend for church and funeral services a week after an earthquake battered the region, killing more than 2,200 people and destroying tens of thousands of buildings.

The collapse of churches in some of the worst-affected towns and villages of the impoverished Caribbean nation left residents to grieve in open fields.