Tropical storm drenches earthquake-stricken Haiti

Grace regained tropical storm status after previously falling to the level of a tropical depression.

People affected by Saturday’s earthquake walk under the rain of Tropical Depression Grace at a refugee camp in Les Cayes, Haiti (Joseph Odelyn/AP)

Tropical Storm Grace has swept over Haiti with drenching rains just two days after a powerful earthquake battered the impoverished Caribbean nation.

After nightfall, heavy rain and strong winds whipped at the country’s southwestern area, hit hardest by Saturday’s quake, and officials warned that rainfall could reach 15in in some areas before the storm moved on.