Thursday, January 14, 2010

Over 100 000 people are feared dead in Haiti

By Khanyisa Tabata
14 January 2010


Haitian President Rene Preval says more than 100-thousand of people are feared dead following a huge quake which has devastated the country's capital.

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said the head of the UN mission in Haiti and his deputy were among more than 100 missing staff members.

The seven-magnitude quake, Haiti's worst in two centuries, struck south of Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday.

The Red Cross says up to three-million people are affected.

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