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.
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