Governments and relief groups struggle to get aid to desperate Haiti earthquake victims
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Relief groups and governments struggled today to speed emergency aid to Haiti’s earthquake victims, who are increasingly desperate to find food, water and medical help for the many injured.
U.N. officials said today that looters had broken into a warehouse in Haiti’s ruined capital, Port-au-Prince, where the World Food Program stored 15,000 tons of food, but they did not know how much of the stockpile was stolen or when the theft took place, the Associated Press reported from Geneva.
U.N. officials warned that residents of impoverished Port-au-Prince are becoming more impatient about the lack of assistance they’ve gotten since the magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated their city Tuesday.
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-- Tina Susman, Tracy Wilkinson, Joe Mozingo in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, and and Ken Ellingwood in Mexico City
Audio slide show: Desperation in Port-au-Prince (graphic content)
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