By Nneka Nwogwugwu
Few days after a devastating earthquake killed almost 2,200 people in Haiti, a fresh tremors shook buildings on Wednesday in the southern Haitian city of Les Cayes.
A police officer told Reuters that there were no immediate reports of further deaths or damage in the region, which is still reeling from the 7.2 magnitude earthquake on Saturday morning.
Haitian authorities said late on Wednesday that the official death toll from the quake had risen to 2,189.
Haiti is still recovering from a 2010 quake that killed over 200,000.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry said that the quake had left Haiti “on its knees”, as survivors showed increasing frustration about the sluggish arrival of relief in hard-hit areas.
Henry had promised a rapid increase in aid. But in a video address on Wednesday evening, he conceded that the Caribbean nation was in trouble.
“The earthquake that devastated a large part of the south of the country proves once again our limits, and how fragile we are,” said Henry.
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