100,000 feared dead in Haiti quake

http://www.timesofearth.com/Technology/?NT=2&nid=15975 WASHINGTON - Leading Haitian senator Youri Latortue said today the death toll could be as high as 500,000.
Earlier, the country's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive put the number of dead at "well over 100,000".




Jean-Max Bellerive said it was still impossible to tell how many had been killed as the capital Port-au-Prince was in such chaos.

'I hope that it is not true, because I hope the people had time to get out,' he said. 'Because we have so many people on the streets right now, we don't know exactly where they have been living.

'But so many, so many buildings, so many neighbourhoods totally destroyed, and some neighbourhoods we don't even see people, so I don't know where those people are.'

President René Préval, meanwhile, described the scene on the streets of Port-au-Prince as 'unimaginable.'
Bloodstained bodies are piled high in the streets and rescuers have been forced to dig through the rubble with their bare hands to free trapped survivors.




'Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed,' he said.

The Red Cross fears up to three million people could be affected.

Barack Obama, the US president, said his thoughts and prayers were with the people of Haiti and the US was ready to help the island nation.

Hillary Clinton, Obama's secretary of state, said the US would provide civilian and military disaster relief assistance.

Tuesday's quake was felt as far away as southeastern Cuba, about 257km from the epicentre, prompting Cuban authorities to evacuate coastal residents because of the initial tsunami threat.

Soldiers at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba also felt the quake but there was no damage to the base or the prison where the US holds about 200 foreign detainees.

Chief Petty Officer Bill Mesta, a sailor at the base, said troops had begun checking stockpiles of blankets, tents and other relief supplies in anticipation that they will be asked to help in the relief effort.

The last major earthquake that hit Haiti - a magnitude 6.7 quake struck in 1984.

Already the poorest nation in the Americas, Haiti has been hit by a series of disasters recently and was battered by hurricanes in 2008.

Michael Zamba of the Pan American Development Foundation said that the disaster would be a "tremendous setback" for Haiti.
"A year ago Haiti was hit by four back-to-back tropical storms and hurricanes. That wiped about 20 per cent off the Gross Domestic Product," he told AFP news agency from Washington DC.

"It has not yet recovered from that last series of natural disasters and this only compounds the situation.

"Haiti is a food insecure nation, it is a nation that needs a lot of food assistance, this is only going to push it back further."

Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti should call the U.S. Department of State, Office of Overseas Citizens Services, at 1-888-407-4747 1-888-407-4747 or 202-647-5225 202-647-5225




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[DivinelyGifted]

@popsidooly to be God's chosen people is a good thing..... to disobey his commandments and get hit with earthquakes is not.

[popsidooly]

@DivinelyGifted is that ment to be a good thing or a bad thing??

[feiticeiral]

American HAARP is strong to kill all this people...

[3shacks1house]

Too bad this thing did'nt happen to Israel

[DUBBELLAGIO]

1/2 a million people dead?... Penn & Teller Need to Judge this video with 2 words in 1 aka BULLSHIT

[DivinelyGifted]

Haitians are part of the LOST 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL aka "god's people"

They along with Negros/Latinos/Native Indians are also are the Chosen Ones... the only ones who fulfill the prophecies in Deuteronomy 28.

It's time for ISRAEL to wake up, STOP SINNING, and turn to the most High!