As doctors in Haiti raced to save the lives of victims from Saturday’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake, heavy rains fell on the country’s southern coast, bringing floods near the hardest-hit areas and further deepening the humanitarian crisis.
Footage posted on social media showed a torrent of water sweeping through a local Haitian town, Reuters reports.
Haiti was just hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that brought down tens of thousands of buildings in the Caribbean country, still recovering from a major quake 11 years ago and the recent assassination of president Jovenel Moise in July.
Haitian authorities said the death toll on Monday rose to 1,419 with some 6,900 people injured.
In the hardest-hit areas in and around the city of Les Cayes, rescue teams continued to dig out survivors and doctors attempted to treat the injured in makeshift tents as outside hospitals were overwhelmed.
In addition to the damage to some roads in the area, access to Les Cayes has been complicated by pollical turmoil, which left gangs in control of key routes to parts of Haiti.
The UN called on Sunday for the establishment of an “aid corridor” in the gang-held areas to enable the flow of aid to the southern regions hardest-hit by the quake.
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