SANTO DOMINGO, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- At least 29 people were killed after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck Haiti on Saturday, causing collapse of buildings.
The director of the country's civil protection agency, Jerry Chandler, said that 17 of the deaths were registered in the department of Grand-Anse, nine in the city of Les Cayes, and three in the department of Nippes, where the epicenter of the eart