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WORLD NEWS Monday 8 october 2018

Haiti earthquake kills 12, injures 188

Associated Press ters) below the surface.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti It was felt lightly in the capi-
(AP) — Emergency teams tal, as well as in the neigh-
worked to provide relief boring Dominican Repub-
in Haiti on Sunday after a lic and in eastern Cuba,
magnitude 5.9 earthquake where no damage was re-
killed 12 people and left ported.
188 injured. In Haiti, officials have strug-
The country’s civil protec- gled to shore up build-
tion agency said that at ings despite the two major
least seven people died in fault lines along Hispaniola,
the coastal city of Port-de- which is the island shared
Paix and three people died with the Dominican Re-
in the nearby community of public. Deep poverty and
Gros-Morne in the province government instability
of Artibonite. It said that the have also rendered weak-
injured were being treated er homes and structures
at medical centers in the particularly vulnerable in
northern part of the coun- earthquakes.
try. Rescue workers in Haiti said
Interior Minister Fednel they were not looking for
Monchery told radio station any more victims, but evi-
MAGK9 that 12 people had Residents stand looking at a collapsed school damaged by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake the dence of the quake’s de-
died. night before, in Gros Morne, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018. struction was on view.
“I feel like my life is not safe Associated Press In the town of Gros-Morne,
here,” said nun Maryse Al- damaged. The U.S. Geological Survey west of Port-de-Paix, which one bed was covered in
saint, director of the San She said that about 500 stu- said the quake hit at 8:11 is about 136 miles (219 kilo- rubble, while the exterior
Gabriel National School in dents would not be able to p.m. Saturday night (001 meters) from the capital of walls of some homes were
Gros-Morne, where several return to school on Mon- GMT) and was centered 12 Port-au-Prince. The quake visibly cracked. Others tilt-
classrooms were severely day. miles (19 kilometers) north- was 7.3 miles (11.7 kilome- ed at precarious angles.q