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.

University of Central Arkansas

Reports show that two people have died and one was severely injured today, alter being shot in the campus of the University of Central Arkansas.

The police forces have already arrested one person who is now in detention under remand, but it is still not certain whether the four attackers and the victims were students of the university or if they even knew each other.

The shooting took place this morning, in Conway, at about 50 km West of Little Rock (city capital of Arkansas), and Conway Regional Medical Center representatives have declared one of the victims died on site and the other at the hospital. Sources say the victims were all young men, of 18-19 years, and that the one who survived was shot in the leg.

Warwick Sabin, spokesman of the University of Central Arkansas has declared that he cannot give exact information regarding the attackers’ and victims’ identities and education status and that all the Monday courses have been suspended.