School Collapse, Haiti

After the collapse of the suburban school in Puerto Principe, Haiti, yesterday, the authorities are still digging up bodies of children trapped under the walls.

The crash, which might have been caused by an earth slide, has killed at least 50 persons and injured quite as many, according to the rescue teams.At the time of the accident the almost 700 students, with ages between 10 and 20, were in their classrooms and in the school yard.

The parents of the children studying there are desperately digging through the piles of cement in search of their bodies. The police and the UN peace forces are doing the best they can to retrieve all the bodies.

The Haitian president, Rene Preval, and the Prime Minister, Michel Pierre Louis, have attended the accident site; they have ensured all those present that the government will do everything in their power to help all the families affected by this tragedy.

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.