A hillside school in Haiti, where 500 students crowded into several floors, collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 50 people and injuring many more. More children were...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The death toll in the collapse of a ramshackle school in Haiti rose above 90 on Saturday after rescue workers uncovered a room full of dead, many of them children, officials said.
Petionville Mayor Claire Rudie Parent told the Associated Press that the concrete building’s third story was still under construction and said that she suspected a structural defect was to blame for the collapse. The Dominican Republic ...
The Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, was sending two helicopters to help, Dominican health minister Bautista Rojas said. United Nations peacekeepers and Haitian police also arrived, trying to clear a ...
"There are no words for this," the mayor said as the search for survivors intensified. Haitian President Rene Preval visited the scene to offer his sympathy, and asked onlookers to come down from surrounding buildings that engineers ...
Doctors without Borders, International Red Cross, Haiti’s Red Cross, UN Peacekeepers and bordering Dominican Republic has sent immediate help to try to reach the rest of the people trapped. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western ...
The Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, was sending two helicopters to help, said the Dominican health minister, Bautista Rojas. United Nations peacekeepers and the Haitian police also arrived, ...
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Kique Bazan, Executive Director - "This past week I visited Dejabon, a city in the Dominican Republic that borders Haiti, and I saw the heart-wrenching realities of forced labor within these two countries. ...
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