Rescuers and scrap metal collectors worked tirelessly this Monday trying to find survivors in the rubble of a hotel that collapsed on Saturday, after the powerful earthquake that hit the south of the country: a total of 15 bodies have been extracted from the place.
Jean Moise Fortunè, brother of the hotel owner who died as a result of the earthquake, believes that more people are trapped there.
But based on the spaces that remained between the concrete,
the hope of finding survivors is increasingly slim.
The strong earthquake, whose epicenter was 80 miles (125 kilometers) west of the capital Port-au-Prince,
has killed at least 1,419 people.
Some 6,000 were injured.
The number of victims has not stopped increasing since what happened.
An injured woman is transferred this Monday to the hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti.Matias Delacroix / AP
Some areas were completely devastated, as
the aftershocks have caused landslides that complicate the already complex rescue efforts in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
[Haiti faces a lack of medicines and resources to search for victims under the rubble]
Haiti was already grappling with the coronavirus pandemic, gang violence, worsening poverty and political instability following the assassination of President Ovenel Moïse on July 7.
In video: This is how they rescued several Haitians trapped under the rubble after the earthquake this Saturday
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[Thousands injured and hundreds killed after the powerful earthquake that shook Haiti]
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