Haiti hit by storm as officials fear quake death toll could rise

Tropical depression makes landfall over areas already hit by Saturday's quake that killed at least 1,419

Medical teams and aid workers were racing to save lives and provide food and shelter on Monday amid fears that the official death toll from Saturday's earthquake could rise further and a tropical depression bore down on the crisis-stricken Caribbean country.

The official death toll rose on Monday to 1,419, and at least 6,000 were injured by the 7.2-magnitude quake - a tremor even more powerful than the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 200,000 Haitians in 2010 and levelled much of Port-au-Prince.