HAITIAN GOVERNMENT SAYS 40,000 BURIED, ANOTHER 100,000 THOUGHT DEAD IN EARTHQUAKE
Source: Reuters
"No-one is in charge. The president is sleeping at the airport with quite a few journalists and aid workers.
Earlier this morning, I stood on top of the rubble of the Supreme Court, the Foreign Ministry, the Interior Ministry and the Senate - where a few senators had been killed when the quake hit. Their bodies have been dragged out and put in body bags. The representatives of state are literally lying on the pavement slowly rotting away.
This is a citizenry left to its own extremely meagre resources. You've got ordinary people trying to administer IV drips to their family members who are slowly dying, but not a single doctor or nurse at the general hospital. "
Matt Frei (BBC), Port-au-Prince
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