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West of the rubble and devastation that has become Port-au-Prince, sits Leogane, another Haitian city flattened by last week's earthquake.
In Leogane, considered the quakes epicenter, similar scenes of debris and despair greeted aid workers who began trickling into the area over the weekend.
Local residents wound their way through the remains of wood and concrete from fallen homes and stores that littered the streets.
Others nailed together makeshift coffins, preparing to bury the unknown number of dead from this city.
On the side of a road, young men covered their noses against the stench of death as they shoveled dirt onto bodies.
Meanwhile, families left homeless by the quake huddled under tents amid the rubble of their houses. Injured residents lay out in the open on blankets and mattresses, receiving often amateur treatment from friends and relatives.
Rescue teams have begun working in the ravaged city, but have not found many survivors in the rubble.
Prior to the quake, Leogane's population consisted of up to 100,000 people.
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A new earthquake shook the devastated Haitian capital, creating panic among survivors of last week's devastating quake camped out in the streets but apparently causing no new destruction.
The powerful 6.1 magnitude aftershock at daybreak sent shrieking Haitians running away from buildings and walls in the shattered city fearing a repeat of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people eight days ago.
Hundreds of Haitians ransacked buildings ravaged by last week's quake, searching for any possible supplies as they awaited more relief. Police arrived to disperse crowds, however, no shots were fired during the melee.
The U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday's tremor was centered 35 miles (60 km) west-southwest of Port-au-Prince.
Desperate and hungry residents of Port-au-Prince have been sleeping outdoors since the Jan. 12 earthquake because their homes were destroyed, or from fear of aftershocks.
Fears of violence and looting have eased in Haiti as U.S. troops provide security for water and food aid deliveries, and thousands of displaced Haitians have heeded the government's advice to seek shelter outside Port-au-Prince.
While military escorts are needed to deliver relief, the United Nations said security problems were mainly in areas considered "high risk" before the disaster. Some 4,000 criminals escaped from prisons damaged by the earthquake.
Around 12,000 U.S. military personnel are on the ground in Haiti, on ships offshore or en route, including the USNS Comfort hospital ship, which was to arrive in the area on Wednesday, providing essential capacity for complex surgeries.
Haitian officials say the death toll from the quake was likely to be between 100,000 and 200,000, and that 75,000 bodies had already been buried in mass graves.
Some 90 people have been pulled alive from the rubble by 52 rescue teams from around the world and untold numbers of others by Haitians digging through collapsed buildings. Racing against time, they hope for a repeat miracle like that of an elderly woman pulled on Tuesday from rubble around National Cathedral.
For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/A new earthquake shook the devastated Haitian capital, creating panic among survivors... more
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Haitians took matters into their own hands to remove bodies still left on city streets one week after a devastating earthquake killed up to 200,000 people.
In the city's downtown area, locals set fire to a decomposing body to get rid of human remains which have been left to rot amid a sputtering recovery effort.
While a huge international relief operation to help earthquake survivors tried to gain momentum, the ravages from the earthquake have left gaping wounds across the city - and desperation is giving way to a simmering anger over the slow pace of assistance.
As the United States and United Nations deploy more troops to secure the relief operation, hundreds of people have been swarming over damaged stores in downtown Port-au-Prince, seizing goods.
Haitian President Rene Preval said U.S. troops will help U.N. peacekeepers keep order on Haiti's streets, where overstretched U.N. and Haitian forces have been unable to provide full security.
For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/Haitians took matters into their own hands to remove bodies still left on city streets... more
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As the United Nations Security Council voted to increase its peacekeeping presence in the earthquake ravaged nation of Haiti, its existing force continued their food distribution, delivering rations to sometimes unruly crowds desperate for aid.
Jordanian soldiers doled out boxes of food from the World Food Programme (WFP), while struggling to reign in the multitudes in Cite Soleil, one of the Haitian capital's poorest neighborhoods.
Since the earthquake struck, more than 270,000 ready-to-eat food rations have been distributed by WFP and the United States military. With immediate food needs so great, WFP appealed to military leaders worldwide to donate 100 million ready-to-eat meals to sustain this vital lifeline.
Haiti's earthquake has leveled buildings, including homes, schools and hospitals, damaged roads and other vital infrastructure, and left one third of the country's nine million people in need of food, water, shelter, medical assistance and other urgent aid.
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In response to the devastating earthquake that rocked the island nation of Haiti last week, a diverse group of musicians has come together to donate unreleased tracks to raise funds for the victims of the quake. The artists involved include Alanis Morissette, The All-American Rejects, Dave Matthews Band, Enrique Iglesias, Hoobastank, Kenna, Linkin Park, Lupe Fiasco, Peter Gabriel and Slash. The effort is organized by Music For Relief, a nonprofit founded by the members of rock group Linkin Park, that is dedicated to raising funds for disaster relief efforts around the world.
http://www.causecast.org/news_items/9497-download-to-donate-for-haiti-musicians-release-unheard-tracks-to-raise-money-for-haiti-reliefIn response to the devastating earthquake that rocked the island nation of Haiti last... more
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Stand With Haiti.
PIH has been working on the ground in Haiti for over 20 years. We urgently need your support to help those affected by the recent earthquake.
HOW YOU CAN HELP: VOLUNTEER AND DONATE SUPPLIES
01/16/2010
We are deeply grateful for the multitude of people who have contacted us wanting to provide medical assistance, medicine and supplies. While we wish we could use all of the support so generously offered, we urgently need the following:
Orthopedic surgeons, trauma surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, OR nurses, post-op nurses, and surgical technicians. Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate any volunteers without significant surgical or trauma training and experience. If your qualifications match our needs, please fill out this form.
Orthopedic supplies, surgical consumables (sutures, bandages, non-powdered sterile gloves, syringes, etc.), and large unopened boxes of medications. Unfortunately, we cannot accept small quantities or unused personal medications. We also need blankets, tents, and satellite phones with minutes. People with private planes willing to fly medical personnel and/or large quanities of supplies are also greatly needed. To donate any of the above goods, please fill out this form.Stand With Haiti.
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Troops and planeloads of food and medicine streamed into Haiti to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people.
The Haitian Red Cross said it believed 45,000 to 50,000 people had died and 3 million more -- one third of Haiti's population -- were hurt or left homeless by the major 7.0 magnitude quake that hit its impoverished capital on Tuesday.
Planes full of supplies arrived at the Port-au-Prince airport faster than ground crews could unload them and aviation authorities restricted non-military flights from U.S. airspace for fear planes would run out of fuel while waiting to land.
Many hospitals were too battered to use, and doctors struggled to treat crushed limbs, head wounds and broken bones at makeshift facilities where medical supplies were scarce.
Several nations sent mobile hospitals, surgeons and even psychologists to help traumatized Haitians. The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort was on the way back to Haiti, where it delivered medical care after a spate of storms caused massive flooding and mudslides in 2008.
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Thousands of people made homeless in Haiti's massive earthquake woke up after a third night in makeshift tents with their despair turning to anger.
Planes full of supplies and search and rescue equipment continued to arrive at Port-au-Prince airport faster than ground crews could unload them, jamming the limited ramp space and forcing arriving aircraft to circle for up to two hours before landing.
Bodies lay all around the hilly city following Haiti's catastrophic quake, which flattened buildings and killed tens of thousands, leaving countless others homeless. People covered their noses with cloth to block the stench of death.
The Haitian Red Cross said it believed 45,000 to 50,000 people had died and 3 million more -- one third of Haiti's population -- were hurt or left homeless by the quake.
Doctors in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, were ill-equipped to treat the injured. Relief workers warned that many more people will die if the injured, many with broken bones and serious loss of blood, do not get first aid in the next day or so.
Many hospitals were too battered to use, and doctors struggled to treat crushed limbs, head wounds and broken bones at makeshift facilities where medical supplies were scarce.
Under a U.N. appeal, the World Food Program will seek to provide life-saving food rations to 2 million destitute people for the next month. A longer-term operation is planned up to July 15.
For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/Thousands of people made homeless in Haiti's massive earthquake woke up after a... more
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Christa Brelsford, a graduate student at Arizona State University, was among the first wave of Haiti earthquake victims airlifted to the United States for medical care.
A native of Alaska, Brelsford was on an 11-day volunteer literacy trip to Dabonne, about 12 miles outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince when the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck.
She said her brother, her boyfriend Julian and she were on the second floor of a house when they felt the earthquake.
Trying to get out of the house, she ran down the stairs but slipped and her legs became trapped in the rubble.
Brelsford was taken by motorcycle to the United Nations base where she was eventually airlifted out of the country and back to the United States.
Doctors at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital amputated her right leg.
Dr. Mark McKenney said Brelsford is one of 11 earthquake victims taken to the hospital, many of whom have fractured bones and punctured lungs.
Tens of thousands of people are believed to have died in the strongest earthquake to hit Haiti in 200 years.
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Troops and planeloads of food and medicine streamed into Haiti to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people.
There were 300 people inside Port-au-Prince's landmark Montana Hotel when the earthquake struck. A hundred managed to escape, but 200 people remain trapped inside.
Members of the French Civil Security rescue team based in Brignolles arrived in the Haitian capital with equipment and medical staff.
A Chilean contingent of U.N. peacekeepers helped excavate rubble at the Montana Hotel and pulled 14 people out alive, including a young girl.
Bodies lay all around the hilly city, and people covered their noses with cloth to try to block the stench. Haitian citizens began digging graves as the infrastructure was overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster.
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With the 7.0 magnitude earthquake collapsing the presidential palace, a string of ministries and the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country, Haiti faces a dangerous vacuum in security and government.
The Caribbean nation of 9 million people, the poorest in the western hemisphere, was devastated by the massive earthquake.
Many people in the capital Port-au-Prince continued to pick away at crumbled buildings with bare hands, sticks and hammers hoping to find loved-ones alive. Thousands of homeless people have set up their own tent camps anywhere they could.
The Haitian Red Cross said it believes that 3 million, one third of Haiti's population, were hurt or left homeless by the quake and between 45,000 and 50,000 people were killed.
For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/With the 7.0 magnitude earthquake collapsing the presidential palace, a string of... more
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The Bisson family were among the first wave of Haiti earthquake victims airlifted back to France.
Patricia Bisson and her husband Michel had travelled to Haiti over a week ago to pick up their new adopted son, Jefferson. They were at the orphanage when the 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck.
She said their first thoughts after the quake were for the safety of their new son, who they barely knew, and to get the 40 other children aged between three months and fourteen years old, out of the dangerous buildings.
Jefferson smiled as he entered his new home country, where his mother hopes he will be able to forget the horrors of the Haiti he left and lead a happy, stable life. Patricia Bisson says he is presumed to be ten, and has already suffered enough.
Tens of thousands of people are believed to have died in the strongest earthquake to hit Haiti in 200 years.
For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/The Bisson family were among the first wave of Haiti earthquake victims airlifted back... more
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The United Nations delivered food and essentials in Haiti, just days after dozens of its personnel were killed in Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti, the worst loss of life the world body has ever suffered in a single incident.
More than 48 hours after the disaster, tens of thousands of people clamored for food and water and help digging out relatives still missing under the rubble.
The Haitian Red Cross said it believed 45,000 to 50,000 people had died and 3 million more -- one third of Haiti's population -- were hurt or left homeless by the major 7.0 magnitude quake that hit its impoverished capital on Tuesday.
The quake flattened buildings across entire hillsides and many people were still trapped alive in the rubble after two days, with little sign of organized rescue efforts.
U.N. peacekeepers stood by as aid workers delivered food to hundreds of people waiting in long lines.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said earlier that around 150 U.N. staff remained unaccounted for. He added that he had no news about the fate of the head of the peacekeeping mission in Haiti, Hedi Annabi of Tunisia.
Haitian President Rene Preval said on Wednesday that Annabi was dead. But U.N. officials later cast doubt on his remarks, saying they had no information to confirm it.
The U.N. force, which includes about 9,000 troops and police from more than 40 countries, was sent to the country in 2004 to try to bring stability after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted by armed gangs and former soldiers.
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Mass graves are springing up all over the city in Haiti's capital Port-Au-Prince for the dead while those who were left hurt or homeless in Tuesday's earthquake begged for food, water and medical assistance on Friday.
Tens of thousands are feared dead from Tuesday's massive quake. The Pan American Health Organization estimated the death toll could be 50,000 to 100,000, higher than previous figures from the Haitian Red Cross, which saw deaths at up to 50,000.
Citizens in the wrecked coastal capital Port-au-Prince spent a third night sleeping out in the open on sidewalks and streets strewn with rubble and scattered decomposing bodies, as aftershocks rippled through the hilly neighborhoods.
On a barren area in the hillsides ten kilometers outside the city, in Ti Tanyen, there were recently dug mass graves for victims all with bodies in them.
Raggedly-dressed survivors held out their arms to foreign reporters in the streets, begging for food and water.
At one destroyed supermarket scores of people swarmed over the rubble to try to reach the food underneath. Just outside Cite Soleil slum, desperate people crowded around a burst water pipe jostling to drink from the pipe or fill up buckets.
Some survivors, angry over the delay in getting aid, build roadblocks with corpses in one part of the city.
For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/Mass graves are springing up all over the city in Haiti's capital Port-Au-Prince... more
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Still pictures show extent of Haiti tragedy after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the capital Port-au-Prince. A massive international relief effort was underway Friday, led by the United Nations as thousands of Haitians were still missing and many feared, buried beneath the rubble.
For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/Still pictures show extent of Haiti tragedy after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck... more
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A Chinese rescue team began relief work in Haiti, treating injured people and searching for survivors, state television (CCTV) reported.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly tens of thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike, leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for international help.
As the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti is ill-equipped to respond to such a disaster, lacking heavy equipment to move debris and a sufficient force of emergency personnel.
Nations around the world are sending rescue teams with search dogs and heavy equipment, helicopters, tents, water purification units, food, doctors and communications teams.
China dispatched a 50-member-strong search and rescue team to assist in aid efforts in Haiti.
According to official Xinhua News Agency, the team consisted of experienced medical and search and rescue personnel and three sniffer dogs.
The team also carried some food, equipment and medicine with them, state media said.
China was struck by a powerful earthquake in May 2008, when an 7.9 magnitude tremor hit the southwestern Sichuan province, killing over 80,000 people.
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