Over 40 people have died in Haiti after torrential rain caused horrific and widespread flooding before an earthquake hit, emergency officials have said.
A further 13,000 have been displaced after their homes were damaged and at least 85 people are injured, according to Haiti's Civil Protection Agency.
The town of Leogane, located 25 miles southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince, was particularly badly hit, with damage caused by three flooded rivers.
In the already vulnerable country, this has now pushed many to breaking point.
The city's streets now have brown rivers running through them - damaging homes, displacing residents and carrying away cars and debris in its wake.
One resident of Léogâne, Phania Cange, told the BBC how her home was swept away in the floods.
She managed to save one of her children but her five-year-old died in the flooding. She told the broadcaster: "I risked losing two (children), but God left the other one hanging in a tree."
Léogâne's Mayor Ernson Henry said city residents were "desperate".
"They have lost everything. The waters have ravaged their fields, washed away their livestock," he told the AFP news agency.
Meanwhile, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 struck southern Haiti early today, killing at least three people and injuring several others.
"I thought the whole house was going to fall on top of me", Eric Mpitabakana, a World Food Program official in Jeremie, told The Associated Press by phone.
Several children are reportedly hospitalized with injuries they received after they panicked and ran.
Claude Prepetit, a geologist and engineer with Haiti's Bureau of Mines and Energy, told Radio Caraibes that smaller earthquakes that occurred earlier this year in southern Haiti led to the bigger one that struck Tuesday.
Almost two years ago a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck and killed more than 2,200 people. Some people who lost their homes last August are still living in camps.
The country is mired in continuous struggles with already weak infrastructure, which has been repeatedly wracked with criminal violence, political turmoil and natural disasters in recent years.
