Haitians fear the coming rainy season will cause more of the displaced to die [AFP]

Flood waters that killed eight people in quake-hit Haiti over the weekend have receded in the country's southeast.

Al Jazeera's Todd Baer, reporting from the capital Port-au-Prince, said water levels in the most affected areas of Les Cayes and surrounding villages may have gone down, but people were continuing to flee on Sunday night.

Short but intense downpours at night triggered the floods, and there are fears that there will be more and worse flooding when the rainy season starts in earnest in a few weeks.

Hundreds of thousands of people remain living on the streets or under inadequate shelter nearly seven weeks after their homes were destroyed by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake.

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Haiti's government, which says up to 300,000 people may have perished in the January quake, had planned to set up dozens of camps with ordinary tents for the displaced.

But now it wants to try to get as many people out of capital as possible and give them thick tarps to whether the impending rainy season, our correspondent said.

Haitian officials say eight people, including at least one child, were killed and two remain missing after the rains and floods on Saturday.

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