Haiti Quake Death Toll Rises to 15, and 300 Injured

A man walks front of a school damaged in an earthquake, that hit northern Haiti in GROS MORNE, Haiti, Oct. 8, 2018. Reuters/Ricardo Rojas

PORT-AU-PRINCE—An earthquake that struck Haiti on Oct. 6 killed 15 people, injured another 300 and destroyed 40 houses, Jerry Chandler, head of the Caribbean country’s civil protection agency, said on Oct. 8.

Chandler was speaking at a news conference to report on the human cost of the relatively shallow, magnitude 5.9 quake, which hit the north of the impoverished country late on Oct. 6.