By Laura Gottesdiener and Ricardo Arduengo LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) -Survivors of the earthquake that killed at least 1,941 people in Haiti clamored for food, shelter and medical care on Tuesday as search and rescue efforts resumed after a tropical storm lashed the Caribbean nation with rain, causing dangerous flooding. Quake damage to several major hospitals hampered humanitarian efforts, and doctors in makeshift tents outside battled to save the lives of the many injured, including young children and the elderly. But they could not help them all. There weren t enough doctors and now she s dead, said Lanette Nuel, sitting listlessly next to her daughter s body outside the main hospital of Les Cayes, one of the towns worst hit by both the tremor and the storm s heavy rains and winds. The 26-year-old deceased woman, herself a mother of two, had been crushed by debris during the magnitude 7.2 quake. Now she lay under a white sheet on the floor. We came in yesterday afternoon, she died
Tropical Storm Grace is deluging Haiti just days after a devastating earthquake leveled scores of buildings and claimed about 1,300 lives. The tremor, registering at magnitude 7.2, struck around 8:30 a.m. Saturday, collapsing apartment buildings and sending residents running through the streets in fear.
Tropical storm Grace hit Haiti on Monday, just two days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 1400 people and left thousands homeless in the beleaguered Caribbean nation.
The new casualty figures from Saturday’s quake, including 10,000 injured, come as victims struggled with a storm deluge that could complicate relief efforts.
Tropical Depression Grace has brought severe rainfall to the impoverished Caribbean nation, just as search and rescue teams were scrambling to deal with the aftermath of a powerful earthquake that killed nearly 2,000 people and left thousands without shelter.