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A month-long state of emergency's been declared in Haiti following a devastating earthquake

RedFM News
RedFM News

10:44 15 Aug 2021


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At least 300 people have died, while more than 18-hundred others have been injured.

The 7-point-2 magnitude quake has destroyed schools, hospitals and homes across the country just over a month after the assassination of its president.

Skyler Badenoch, the chief executive of Help for Haiti, says the nation is heading for a humanitarian crisis:

"What's unfolding right before our eyes, very concerned, it was, it's been a very difficult, two, two and a half years for the people of Haiti because of political unrest because of COVID, and now this."


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