Haitians walk past damaged buildings in Port-au-Prince after a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said.
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A Haitian woman is helped after being trapped in rubble in Port-au-Prince.
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A Haitian woman is knee-deep in rubble after a building collapsed around her during a 7.0 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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A Haitian woman is covered in rubble.
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A man calls for help while being trapped at the Port-au-Prince University.
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Haiti’s Presidential Palace (above) is one of the many government buildings that have collapsed after a 7.0 earthquake struck the impoverished nation of Haiti. Thousands are feared to be dead and buried in what one diplomat has called a “catastrophe.”
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Haitians react after a 7.0 earthquake hit the Caribbean nation, toppling homes, Haiti’s presidential palace and several other government buildings.
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Communications to Haiti were severely disrupted in the wake of a 7.0 earthquake that toppled buildings (above), produced several aftershocks and prompted a tsunami warning.
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Haitians carry an injured person after an earthquake believed to be the largest ever recorded in the area struck the impoverished nation.
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Two Haitians walk past collapsed buildings after a 7.0 earthquake hit the nation.
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The scene in Port-au-Prince after a massive 7.0 quake rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti.
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A house in Thomassin, east of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that has collapsed from the major earthquake.
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Haiti’s Presidential Palace (above) is one of the many government buildings that have collapsed after a 7.0 earthquake struck the impoverished nation of Haiti. Thousands are feared to be dead and buried in what one diplomat has called a “catastrophe.”
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A damaged building near the Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince, Haiti after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the Caribbean nation. The International Red Cross says a third of Haiti’s 9 million people may need emergency aid and that it would take a day or two for a clear picture of the damage to emerge from Tuesday’s earthquake.
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A man carrying an injured child outside the Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince, Haiti after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the Caribbean nation. The International Red Cross says a third of Haiti’s 9 million people may need emergency aid and that it would take a day or two for a clear picture of the damage to emerge from Tuesday’s earthquake.
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People carry an injured person after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, late Tuesday.
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An injured person is seen after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince.
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Wounded people gathered at the office of Medecins Sans Frontieres in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake hit the poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters.
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An injured young boy being tended to at Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The International Red Cross says a third of Haiti’s 9 million people may need emergency aid and that it would take a day or two for a clear picture of the damage to emerge from Tuesday’s earthquake.
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Haiti’s Presidential Palace (above) is one of the many government buildings that have collapsed after a 7.0 earthquake struck the impoverished nation of Haiti. Thousands are feared to be dead and buried in what one diplomat has called a “catastrophe.”
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Buildings are seen damaged in the neighbourhood of Petionville, Port-Au-Prince shortly after an earthquake hit Haiti. The 7.0 magnitude quake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for international help.
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A view of the Canape-Vert area after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
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A resident looks at debris being removed from the national palace after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
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A destroyed building is seen in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands.
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Destroyed buildings are seen after a major earthquake hit the capital Port-au-Prince. The death toll in Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake could run to tens of thousands, President Rene Preval said on Wednesday, a day after the quake demolished schools, hospitals, houses and hillside shanties across the crowded and improverished capital.
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A survivor looks at a house demolished by an eartquake in Port-au-Prince. More than 200,000 people were feared dead in Haiti Wednesday after a calamitous earthquake razed homes, hotels, and hospitals, leaving the capital in ruins and bodies strewn in the streets. With thousands of people missing, dazed survivors in torn clothes wandered through the rubble as more than 30 aftershocks rocked the ramshackle capital, where more than two million people live, most in the grip of poverty.
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A Haitian man rides his bicycle past the rubble of a destroyed church caused by a massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
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Injured people sit along Delmas road the day after an earthquake struck Port-au-Prince.
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A UN car is covered in rubble the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince.
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Debris litters a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti Wednesday as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. US President Barack Obama ordered a swift and aggressive US rescue effort, while the European Union activated its crisis systems and the Red Cross and United Nations unlocked emergency funds and supplies for the destitute nation.
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People search for survivors under the rubble of a collapse building the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince.
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People pass by the remains of a six-story communication building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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A woman reacts near destroyed buildings after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
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