Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images By Melissa Noel ·August 20, 2021August 20, 2021
Just days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, the death toll continues to rise and so do the numbers of those injured and displaced.
Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency has now reported that as of Wednesday, 2,189 people have died and over 12,000 have been injured following the August 14th earthquake,which rocked the southwestern part of the island. More than