Earthquake hits Caribbean coast

A strong earthquake has hit Honduras and Belize, leaving at least four people dead,  injuring 40 others and razing many homes on the Caribbean coast.The 7.1 magnitude quake struck at 2.20am (0820GMT) on Thursday 64km from Roatan, the biggest of Honduras' Bay Islands."We have confirmed four dead," Randolfo Funes, an official at Honduras' civil protection agency, said."They were all asleep. Most of them died crushed ... There will be many more dead."A six-year-old girl in the Honduran beach town of Morazan was killed when one of the walls of her house fell on her.Another man in the nearby town of Tela suffered a heart attack when the quake struck and was taken for treatment.