'They are hungry': Haiti quake survivors fear for children's future


  • World
  • Monday, 23 Aug 2021

A motorcycle drives on a road with cracks caused by a 7.2 magnitude quake in Marceline, Haiti August 22, 2021. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo

CAMP-PERRIN, Haiti (Reuters) -Many survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 2,200 people in southern Haiti are worried about providing for their children, with more than half a million minors feared to be at risk from the fallout.

The Aug. 14 quake hammered infrastructure, destroying or damaging some 130,000 homes, cutting off roads and pitching thousands of families in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country into an uncertain future.

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