PortauPrince, Jan 24 (AFP/APP): Two men were killed in a 5.3-magnitude earthquake that shook southwestern Haiti early Monday, officials told AFP, with the tremor followed by several aftershocks.
In Anse-a-Veau, a small coastal town 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of the capital Port-au-Prince, a man died when a wall collapsed. In Fond-des-Negres, 20 kilometers further south, the second death was caused by a landslide.
The ages of the victims were not made public by the Haitian civil protection department.
Recorded at 8:16 am local time (1316 GMT), the earthquake was felt in the capital and was followed by a dozen tremors, including an aftershock with a magnitude of 5.1 less than an hour later.
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