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Haiti school collapse toll rises

Source: BBC

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | Conflict & Tragedy

President Preval later told the Associated Press news agency that he believed poor construction methods, including a failure to use reinforced steel, had been to blame for the building's collapse. Other buildings throughout Haiti were at a similar risk because...

Owner of collapsed Haiti school arrested

Posted by: kalex

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Haitian police say they have arrested the owner of a school that collapsed and killed at least 88. Police spokesman Garry Desrosier says Fortin Augustin, the preacher who owns and built College La Promesse, was arrested Saturday and charged with...

Haiti school collapse toll rises

Source: Al Jazeera

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | No category

The number of people killed in the collapse of a school near Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, has risen to 84, officals say. Rescuers uncovered a classroom full of dead students on Saturday, after searching through the night to find survivors in the...

Crews search at collapsed Haiti school

Source: CNN

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | No category

Three days after a school collapse killed at least 89 people, rescuers continued their search Monday for survivors in the rubble. No one has been found alive since early Saturday at the College La Promesse Evangelique, a three-story concrete building...

Haiti school search now recovery, not rescue

Source: USA Today

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | No category

Emergency workers worked to recover the bodies of victims from the rubble of a collapsed school building, but officials said they no longer expect to find anyone alive in the wreckage.

Second Haitian school collapses

Source: United Press International

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | Political News

A second Haitian school collapsed Wednesday, leaving nine people injured in the wake of an earlier school collapse that killed 89. At least two students were seriously hurt and were taken to a hospital, Haitian radio reported Wednesday.

Haitian authorities reject Dominican aid twice

Source: Dominican Today

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | No category

In less than 15 days the Haitian authorities have rejected expressions of solidarity and two humanitarian aid packages from Dominicans, including specialist doctors, anesthesia, equipment and two ambulances to assist the victims of the school collapse in Petionville.

Poor oversight means many Haiti schools are unsafe

Source: Lexington Herald-Leader

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | No category

The rumor shot like electricity through the Haitian capital: Another school was falling. Desperate parents and would-be rescuers ran through alleys, leaped over walls and wrestled with police to reach the scene...But at least a dozen students were injured rushing...

Owner of Haiti School arrested--88 dead, by Donna Auguste for Biodun ...

Posted by: BiodunIginla

Pétionville :: Haiti | about 1 month ago | Conflict & Tragedy

y Donna Auguste AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa by Donna Auguste for Biodun Iginla and Emily Straton of BBC News in Minneapolis and Hong Kong ______________________________________________________________________________ – 8 mins ago PETIONVILLE, Haiti – Police arrested the owner...