Reply #3: Guardian: It became increasingly, brutally clear: Port-au-Prince is a tomb [View All]

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Some were left beside the rubble, others were shrouded under sheets and lined up in rows, others were packed and stacked in pick-up trucks: there was no escaping the dead of Port-au-Prince today.

The general hospital, its services all but collapsed, became host to a growing army of corpses. Carried, dragged and wheeled there, their ranks swelled by the hour, from dozens to hundreds to over a thousand. "I can't say how many more bodies will be brought here," the hospital director, Guy LaRoche, told Reuters.

Burial was a task for another day while there were still living souls to be dug out from the heaps of smashed concrete which filled the horizon.

It was day three in Haiti's capital and if anything the horror seemed to be worsening. At the Ecole Normale Delmas emergency teams extracted the bodies of teenage schoolgirls in orange uniforms. Their faces were smashed.

Laura Bickle, an orphanage worker, said the parks were filled with people with no homes or shelter to go to. "They are pulling people out of the rubble, literally, blood running in the gutter like water."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/14/haiti-port-au-prince-deaths