Posted by: stuffwhitepeoplecareabout on: November 10, 2008
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About 100 schoolchildren and teachers were killed when a shantytown, church-run school packed with hundreds of students collapsed during classes on Friday morning, a government official said.
The three-story La Promesse (The Promise) school in Petion-ville at Nerettes, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, caved in a heap of cement slabs and twisted steel rods at about 10.00am (15.00 GMT) on Friday, trapping scores inside, about 500 students.
A new story had been under construction atop the school when it fell in, also destroying or damaging five homes next to it.
By late in the day around 50 bodies, most of them children, had been found, officials said.
Many neighboring countries are sending in rescue teams to help find students buried under heavy cement slabs. Some students are crying for help. They are asking rescuers to cut their trapped legs and save them. They are thirsty and hungry. Time is of the essence right now.
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