Topic: Elisabeth Byrs

AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-24 17:10:44

Rescuers have pulled a man alive from the rubble 11 days after Haiti's devastating earthquake, raising hopes more survivors could be found even search efforts have been officially called off. Wismond Exantus, 25, said after his rescue on Saturday that he survived his ordeal in the ruins of the grocer's shop where he worked by drinking Coca-Cola and ...

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AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-18 00:10:44

Haitians sought comfort in their faith Sunday, flocking to pray in church ruins as the government said 70,000 bodies had been buried in mass graves since the earthquake disaster. Rescue teams raced against time to pull out survivors five days after the quake struck amid fears that the eventual toll from the catastrophe could approach 200,000, if it ...

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AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-18 00:10:43

Haitians sought comfort in their faith Sunday, flocking to pray in church ruins as rescue teams raced against time to pull out any final survivors five days after a devastating earthquake. UN chief Ban Ki-moon flew in to assess what he called the "most serious humanitarian disaster in decades," while security degenerated in the capital with police killing a man ...

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AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-17 21:10:19

Rescuers pulled three survivors from the rubble Sunday five days after the Haiti earthquake, but tensions were growing among a desperate population as police opened fire on looters, killing one man. After hours of painstaking digging through the ruins, a team from Florida unearthed a seven-year-old girl, a man aged 34 and a 50-year-old woman in the ruins of a ...

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