HAITI HAS been rocked by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9 which has killed at least four people, authorities said.
The quake which struck early on Tuesday morning, injuring at least 36 other people and causing widespread damage in the southwestern coastal city of Jérémie.
“I thought the whole house was going to fall on top of me,” Eric Mpitabakana, a World Food Program official in Jérémie, told The Associated Press.
According to Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency, two homes collapsed in the earthquake and major roads were blocked.
Three of those who died are believed to be from the same family and were found under a collapsed house, Frankel Maginaire of Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency in Jérémie told the AP.
Mr Maginaire added that several children were hospitalised with injuries.
This latest earthquake follows an earthquake in the same area last Sunday.
Over the weekend, heavy floods across the Caribbean country killed at least 51 people.
According to The Associated Press, at least 140 people have sustained injuries and over 31,000 homes have been flooded.
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has called for international help.
In 2021, a quake with a magnitude of 7.2 rocked the Caribbean country killing more than 2,240 people.
In 2010, a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti killed at least 160,000 people.
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The African-heritage Haitian people successfully battled against Napolean’s army, to win their freedom from slavery and become the one and only free, former slave-state in the norther hemisphere.
For winning their cictory from European slavery the Haitian people have endured a series of manmade, and nature created punishments.
However, since the Haitian people’s victory over Napolean’s army in 1802, the united Western Judiciary; its leading Banking family, a succession of western supported bad political leaders, and nature herself, has not stop punishing the Haitian people for winning their freedom from Caucasian Europe’s Slave Masters.
Today the Voice reports another Earthquake for the Haitian people; whose punishment for winning their victory from Caucasian Slavery continues to this present day.