Quake-shattered Haiti awaits aid as thousands feared dead

Thousands are feared dead after Haiti's deadliest earthquake in over two centuries. The Prime Minister of Haiti said that he feared an earthquake which devastated Port-au-Prince could have killed "well over 100,000" people. According to the Red Cross, more than three million people have been affected and over six hundred thousand reportedly injured. The quake measuring seven on the Richter scale destroyed the Presidential Palace Most of the island's infrastructure has been severely damaged. The island state is said to be suffering 'a catastrophe of major proportions'. With communication links on the island disrupted, people are desperately trying to contact their relatives.

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[CarryOnDrJosef]

These disgusting Negroes deserve to die, poetic justice for murdering the french inhabitants.

[baraxor]

Oh! Shock! Horror!

. (That's the period that's supposed to be at the end, you pedant.)

[VIDEOWEBB]

Please see "HAITI: SOMEBODY'S CHILD" on YouTube

[kinamm1]

@baraxor You can't even write and read your fucking English

[baraxor]

With the lowest literacy rate in the Western Hemisphere, how could the starving and impoverished (i.e. average) Haitans even know their history...or be able to read a book??

[G0Dful]

haiti is screwed, the U.S is going to destroy them, Obama should be commanding the help not bush, bush took forever to get to catrina if the repubs would shut up obama could help

[xxConverse101xx]

Sudan is worse than Haiti

[redthunder3979]

see blackwater is in haiti