{"id":3225,"date":"2010-01-13T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T08:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2010-01-13T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T08:33:28","slug":"hundreds-feared-dead-in-haiti-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/hundreds-feared-dead-in-haiti-quake\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds feared dead in Haiti quake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hundreds<\/a>A 7.0-magnitude quake \u2013 the biggest recorded in this part of the Caribbean \u2013 and the largest to hit Haiti in more than 200 years, has rocked Port-au-Prince.
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\nA huge rescue operation was under way this morning after a powerful earthquake hit Haiti, toppling buildings in the capital Port-au-Prince, burying residents in rubble and sparking tsunami alerts in what is feared to be a major catastrophe.<\/p>\n

A 7.0-magnitude quake \u2013 the biggest recorded in this part of the Caribbean \u2013 and the largest to hit Haiti in more than 200 years, rocked Port-au-Prince last night, collapsing a hospital and sending houses tumbling into ravines. Hundreds are feared to have been killed.<\/p>\n

The headquarters of the 9,000-member Haiti peacekeeping mission and other UN installations were seriously damaged, according to Alain Le Roy, the U.N. peacekeeping chief in New York and a large number of personnel remained unaccounted for.<\/p>\n

Witnesses reported seeing bodies in the rubble and clouds of dust shrouding the city, but with telephone communications cut the extent of damage was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n

“Everything started shaking, people were screaming, houses started collapsing, it’s total chaos,” said Joseph Guyler Delva, a Reuters reporter. “I saw people under the rubble, and people killed. People were screaming ‘Jesus, Jesus’ and running in all directions.”<\/p>\n

The scope of the disaster remained unclear early Wednesday, and even a rough estimate of the number of casualties was impossible. But it was clear from a tour of the capital that tens of thousands of people had lost their homes and that many had perished.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 12)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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