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Aftershock dooms Haiti, damage remains unknown
Hundreds of dead bodies are still rotting under the rubble and the damaged buildings. With the aftershock devastating what little was left in Haiti, it seems impossible to find out, how much the second earthquake has added to destruction.

A POWERFUL AFTERSHOCK struck Haiti on Wednesday, scaling 6.0 on richter scale. The earthquake second in last seven days has now posed the biggest challenge for rescue teams in the region, who are still struggling to sort out the death statistics of the carnage. Hundreds of dead bodies are still rotting under the rubble and the damaged buildings.
 
While with the aftershock devastating what little was left in Haiti, it seems now impossible to figure out, how much the second earthquake has added to the destruction.
 
The associated Press reported on Wednesday that “screaming people were running into the streets eight days after the country's capital was devastated by an apocalyptic quake.”
 
Prime Minister Jean-Max as per sources, told the government that he was sending a plane and an overland team to check on the situation in Petit-Goave, the center of the aftershock.
 
One confirmed death was reported of woman who died of a heart attack. "She had a heart condition, and the new quake finished her," a survivor told the AP while pushing her body along the street on a mobile stretcher.
 
"It kind of felt like standing on a board on top of a ball," said US Army Staff Sgt. Steven Payne.
 
Last week's magnitude-7 quake killed an estimated 200,000 people in Haiti, left 250,000 injured and made 1.5 million homeless, according to the European Union.
 
People Fleeing Haiti:
 
According to sources, some of the survivors left in Haiti are fleeing the country in search of safer relocation. Anold Fleurigene, a 28 year old survivor who saved his wife and three children from the quake told the news agencies that he no longer wants to live in Haiti. “My house was destroyed in the first quake and my sister and brother were killed. I've seen the situation here, and I want to get out," he told the agencies.
 
More than 100 people have been pulled from wrecked buildings by international search-and-rescue teams and dozens of teams were still hunting through Port-au-Prince's crumbled homes and buildings for signs of life on Wednesday.
 
As for the survivors who are in badly injured state, survival is becoming increasingly tough. "We need Food, clothes, water. I don't know whose responsibility it is, but they need to give us something soon," Sophia Eltime, a 29-year-old mother of two who has been living under a bedsheet with seven members of her extended family was quoted by Associated Press.
 
The World Food Program needs to deliver 100 million ready-to-eat rations in Haiti in the next 30 days, but it only has 16 million meals in stock.
COMMENTS (1)
This is truly deavistating there has been reported another only one hour ago I will b praying
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