Haiti
A school has collapsed today in Puerto Principe, the capital city of the island of Haiti, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens more, according to the witnesses.
The authorities have not yet given an official report on the situation, but the police and UN forces are still searching for any people trapped under the school walls.
Nobody knows for sure what has caused the collapse; the La promesse, College evangelique is a four stories high building and did not seem to have any obvious structure problems.
Dozens of parents entered the building, looking for their children and hoping they were not lying under some wall of concrete. The police and the UN peace forces are now putting all their efforts in helping the parents and in ensuring all the persons that were in the building at the time of the collapse are rescued.
Carl Henry Boucher, police spokesman, has declared that more than 25 people have been transported to the hospital with severe injuries and that the doctors fear for the lives of many of them.
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This post was written by Dana Ciucalau on November 7, 2008
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