In Pictures: Powerful quake adds to Haiti’s misery

A powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake added to the misery in Haiti, killing at least 304 people, injuring a minimum of 1,800 others and destroying hundreds of homes. People in the Caribbean island nation rushed into the streets to seek safety and to help help rescue those trapped in the rubble of collapsed homes, hotels and other structures.

A woman stands in front of a destroyed home in the aftermath of an earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti Photo: AP

People search for survivors in a home destroyed by the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. Photo: AP

The body of a person is covered on a street after being hit by a car in Les Cayes, Haiti, late Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. Photo: AP

A woman recovers belongings from her home destroyed by the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. Photo: AP

The Cayimite Hotel is damaged after an earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. Photo: AP

A woman injured in the earthquake is transferred to a plane to be flown to Port-au-Prince, in Les Cayes, Haiti, Saturday Photo: AP

A man uses a sledgehammer trying to rescue people from the rubble of a home destroyed by the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. Photo: AP

A man recovers belongings from his home that was destroyed by the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. Photo: AP

Oxiliene Morency cries out in grief after the body of her 7-year-old-daughter Esther Daniel was recovered from the rubble of their home destroyed by the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. Photo: AP