A worker for Action Medeor relief organization packs parcels in emergency health kits in Toenisvorst, western Germany, on Wednesday Jan. 13, 2010, to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The sign reads : 'Haiti Emergency'. [Agencies]
Although information coming out of the Caribbean nation is limited, due to the
fact that power and telephone lines were downed in the quake, some news has
reached the outside world via cell phones and Twitter accounts. At the time of
this writing, officials have released no casualty estimates, but thousands of
people are feared dead.
Political instability has left the country with few construction standards, and
so buildings are simply not made to withstand such a natural disaster.
Emergency services are practically nonexistent, forcing survivors to risk their
own lives by scrambling over rubble and inside unstable structures.
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