Region west of capital city rocked by aftershock mere week after earthquake ravaged country

Haiti has been shaken by a strong aftershock, just a week after an earthquake ravaged the country.

The tremor, which measured 6.1 on the Richter scale, hit the country west of the capital Port-au-Prince at 6am local time.

Several buildings which had been left damaged and weakened by the original quake collapsed, adding to the rubble strewn streets.

Terrified inhabitants reportedly flooded the streets fearing that more unstable buildings would collapse, a BBC correspondent in the region said.

Emergency teams are still working to pull people alive from the rubble following last week's earthquake which killed an estimated 200,000 people, and left about 1.5m homeless.

The full extent of the damage from today's aftershock is not yet known.

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