Bodies lining Haiti’s roadsides are the grim tally of disaster

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Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti -- The damage in Haiti’s capital seemed nearly random.

Some hillsides of homes look as if they had simply crumbled into the dirt. Other buildings, such as the cheerful-looking Rose Restaurant, appear untouched.

But along the city’s roadsides, the true cost of Tuesday’s magnitude 7 earthquake was readily visible: the bodies of victims neatly lined up, some covered in white sheets and some not.

The corpses included that of a young girl -- perhaps a teenager -- in pink shorts; a couple lying next to one another; a man covered in a sheet up save for his horribly swollen feet poking out from beneath.

There was virtually no sign of outside assistance other than a few United Nations vehicles passing by -- and there was no police presence, no water being handed out, no encampments except those set up by people apparently left homeless by the quake or those too afraid to go back into their ramshackle homes in case of aftershocks.

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-- Tina Susman

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Top photo: A United Nations TV video grab handout shows covered bodies in Port-au-Prince.