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AccuWeather said Melissa was the Caribbean's third-most intense and slowest-moving hurricane on record, making it particularly destructive.
At least 5,601 people were killed in Haiti last year as a result of gang violence, an increase of over 1,000 on the total killings for 2023, according to figures verified by the UN Human Rights Office. A further 2,212 people were injured and 1,494 kidnapped.
Hours after the blast, buildings and overturned vehicles were still smoking as firefighters covered burned bodies in white sheets and loaded them onto the back of a construction truck.
The devastation is centred on the country's southwestern area, where health care has reached capacity and people have lost homes and loved ones.
The 7.2 magnitude quake on Saturday destroyed thousands of homes and buildings in a Caribbean nation which is still clawing its way back from another major temblor years ago and is reeling from the assassination of its president last month.
The 7.2-magnitude quake, which was followed by a series of aftershocks, struck 8 km (5 miles) from the town of Petit Trou de Nippes, about 150 km west of the capital Port-au-Prince, at a depth of 10 km.
The assassination came amid political unrest, a surge in gang violence and a growing humanitarian crisis in the poorest nation in the Americas.
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