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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
Gessika Thomas and Brian Ellsworth

Haiti quakes kill two, send residents flooding into the streets

Haiti was struck by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake and a series of smaller tremors on Monday that killed two people and led panicked residents of the Caribbean nation's southern peninsula to flood into the streets.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the first quake hit an area near the city of Les Cayes and was followed by tremors of 4.4 and 5.1 in the same area, just six months after a major tremor in the same region killed more than 2,000 people.

One person died in Fond des Nègres and a second in Anse-à-Veau, where 35 homes were destroyed, Haiti's civil protection authority said in a tweet, adding that a road and a bridge had also been destroyed.

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