The killer earthquake in the Carribean nation Haiti has left nearly 50,000 people dead amidst wide-scale destruction.
The country’s Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive feared the death toll may go over one lakh people.
With hospitals also having crumbled in the fury of the quake, medical services were struggling to cope with the flow of wounded.
Countries dispatch rescue teams to Haiti
Several countries have dispatched their rescue teams to Haiti to begin the search operations for those who are still buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings following a devastating quake.
The United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) has appealed for immediate assistance and the UN in New York will issue a flash appeal for aid in the coming days.
“MINUSTAH is expecting a team of search and rescue experts from China to arrive shortly to lead rescue operations at the collapsed MINUSTAH headquarters,” Vincenzo Pugliese, the UN spokesperson in Haiti, told UN officials in United Nations.
UN peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said the Chinese team will reach the Caribean country shortly.
The top UN official on humanitarian affairs John Holmes told journalists in United Nations that two US teams were also expected to reach the country in a few hours.
Other countries, including France, Iceland and Dominican Republic are also sending their help and rescue teams.
An earthquake of 7.3-magnitude rocked the Caribbean nation of Haiti on Wednesday and damaged presidential palace besides other government buildings in the country’s
capital Port-au-Prince.
The country’s Prime Minister warned the death toll may top 100,000 in a calamitous quake which left streets strewn with corpses and thousands missing in a scene of utter carnage.
via ddinews.com
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