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Haiti earthquake: No food, no water... and gutters running with blood
By Liz Hazelton
Last updated at 10:53 PM on 14th January 2010
Tens of thousands of people are facing a second catastrophe tonight as they struggled for survival on the devastated island of Haiti.
With no food, no water and no shelter, aid agencies were in a desperate race against time to save the victims of the earthquake
Witnesses described gutters running with blood and children sleeping among heaps of dead bodies after becoming separated from their parents.
Grief-stricken: Residents of Port-au-Prince, mourn as a girl's body is removed from the rubble
Desolate: Survivors gather around bodies laid out after being recovered from the wreckage
There are growing fears that lack of basic sanitation and disease could claim thousands more lives.
Gordon Brown described the situation as a 'tragedy beyond imagination' and urged people to support emergency appeals.
Rescue teams from around the world - including the UK - are descending on the stricken island.
But international aid is still only trickling through, hampered by poor communications and damaged roads.
Exhausted: A mother sleeps in a makeshift with her children clustered around her (left) while an image of Pope John Paul II hangs on a wall that cracked by an earthquake
Rubble: A woman looks dazed as she wanders through once bustling streets
Terrible task: Men carry away the battered body of a young woman plucked from the rubble in Port-au-Prince
Displaced Haitians walk the streets amidst collapsed buildings and rubble
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1243176/Haiti-earthquake-16-Brits-missing-horrifying-new-pictures-reveal-extent-destruction.html#ixzz0cdQD2wWC
By Liz Hazelton
Last updated at 10:53 PM on 14th January 2010
Tens of thousands of people are facing a second catastrophe tonight as they struggled for survival on the devastated island of Haiti.
With no food, no water and no shelter, aid agencies were in a desperate race against time to save the victims of the earthquake
Witnesses described gutters running with blood and children sleeping among heaps of dead bodies after becoming separated from their parents.
Grief-stricken: Residents of Port-au-Prince, mourn as a girl's body is removed from the rubble
Desolate: Survivors gather around bodies laid out after being recovered from the wreckage
There are growing fears that lack of basic sanitation and disease could claim thousands more lives.
Gordon Brown described the situation as a 'tragedy beyond imagination' and urged people to support emergency appeals.
Rescue teams from around the world - including the UK - are descending on the stricken island.
But international aid is still only trickling through, hampered by poor communications and damaged roads.
Exhausted: A mother sleeps in a makeshift with her children clustered around her (left) while an image of Pope John Paul II hangs on a wall that cracked by an earthquake
Rubble: A woman looks dazed as she wanders through once bustling streets
Terrible task: Men carry away the battered body of a young woman plucked from the rubble in Port-au-Prince
Displaced Haitians walk the streets amidst collapsed buildings and rubble
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1243176/Haiti-earthquake-16-Brits-missing-horrifying-new-pictures-reveal-extent-destruction.html#ixzz0cdQD2wWC