The final words of thousands of earthquake victims were seen and heard for the first time as Haiti’s cell phone system began working again, The Sun reported Tuesday.
Frantic voice mails and texts from people trapped in the ruins following Jan. 12’s deadly 7.0-magnitude quake brought fresh anguish to friends and relatives of the estimated 150,000 dead.
Survivor Rene Emile, 32, said her husband Peter was on a course at a college in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince before it collapsed.
He sent a text message which said: “Send help, we are still alive. May the Lord bless you and keep you, his face shine upon you. I love you.”
Emile said: “This is all I have left of my husband. Some words on a cell phone screen. This is all there is and it arrived too late.”
Haiti officials confirmed that more than 150,000 quake victims had been buried in mass graves but feared the final toll could be more than the 230,000 killed by the 2004 Asian tsunami.
An estimated 1.5 million people are homeless and one million children are orphans on the devastated Caribbean island nation.
Thousands of injuries are being treated in a huge makeshift hospital set up in a mango swamp.