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Rico Dibrivell, 35, is given water after being found in the rubble of a damaged building in Port-au-Prince, yesterday. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Two new tremors shake capital
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – U.S. troops pulled a man alive from under a collapsed building in Haiti’s capital yesterday as UN troops sprayed tear gas at survivors desperate for food two weeks after a catastrophic earthquake.
The 35-year-old man, covered in dust and dressed only in underpants, was carried from the ruins of a building in downtown Port-au-Prince on a stretcher and driven off for medical treatment.
He was rescued by soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division, and did not appear to have any serious injuries.
More than 130 people have been pulled out still living from under wrecked buildings by rescue teams from around the world, although hopes of finding more survivors are fading fast. The latest rescue, exactly 14 days after the magnitude-7.0 earthquake killed more than 200,000 people, came as the U.S.-led relief effort was focused on getting help to hundreds of thousands of survivors left homeless, hungry and injured.
Brazilian UN peacekeeping troops sprayed tear gas at a frenzied crowd of thousands crowding a food handout outside the wrecked presidential palace earlier yesterday.
Port-au-Prince was rattled by two new earth tremors, two weeks after the deadly earthquake, scaring a weary and destitute people from their improvised beds in makeshift camps.
The US Geological Survey, which has warned the beleaguered Caribbean nation to expect tremors for the next month, measured the second tremor at 4.4.
All across the city, ad hoc street committees have hung imploring banners in English and French — “SOS”, “We need help here” and “We need food and water” – in desperate attempts to attract the attention of aid agencies.
With its helicopters in constant rotation overhead, and foot patrols increasingly in evidence in the city, the US military has assumed a dominant role in the aid operation, and has been largely welcomed by Haitians.
Donor nations and aid organisations have warned that rebuilding the country will take at least a decade.
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