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Haiti waits for aid
Thousands of earthquake survivors in Haiti are clamouring for basic necessities in the aftermath of the disaster on Tuesday [Reuters]
Published On 17 Jan 2010
17 Jan 2010
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Angry, desperate and homeless people are demanding quicker help... [Reuters]
...but while aid had begun arriving, getting it to those who need it has been hampered by logistical delays [EPA]
The magnitude 7.0 quake has largely devastated the capital Port-au-Prince, where the uncounted dead share the city with the living, lining the streets [Reuters]
Hundreds of corpses have been piled up in vacant lots, outside hospitals and morgues, as others are laid to rest in mass graves [Reuters/UN handout]
Rescuers say there are easily hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of people still trapped, living or dead, in collapsed buildings [Reuters]
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, called the needs of the humanitarian disaster in Haiti huge and immediate [AFP]
Dozens of search-and-rescue teams from around the world are racing against time hoping to find trapped survivors [EPA]
Survivors made homeless have gathered in makeshift camps amid piles of salvaged goods, including food scavenged from the rubble [EPA]
The Red Cross estimates a death toll of at least 45,000, although officials say it may take weeks to get a more precise figure [Reuters]