Haiti remains a place of profound need,
anguish, desperation and danger, with a few glimmers of hope and slowly
growing capabilities to receive and distribute the international aid
now flowing in. Sporadic looting, sometimes violent, was met with force
by security oficials and ordinary citizens, resulting in a number of
further deaths and injuries. The tenuous security situation has led to
at least one temporary evacuation of a medical facility, to protect the
care-givers. Despite the long time since the earthquake, at least five
people were pulled from the rubble alive this weekend, including a
young girl trapped inside a supermarket who was fortunately surrounded
by food, and survived on fruit snacks
1.Survivors
of Tuesday's earthquake extend their arms as U.S. troops with the 82nd
Airborne Division distribute water in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17,
2010. The troops gave out over 9,000 bottles of water and 2,000 meals
Sunday.
2.A
man is rescued by members of U.S., Spanish and Taiwanese rescue teams
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 17, 2010.
3.A
woman raises her arms for products as people loot from a destroyed shop
after Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, January 16, 2010.
4.Looters
fight for products at a business area in Port-au-Prince January 16,
2010. Four days after a massive quake killed up to 200,000 people and
wrecked most of the capital Port-au-Prince, hundreds of thousands of
Haitians were still desperately waiting for assistance as scavengers
and looters preyed on shattered buildings in the widespread absence of
authority and order.
5.A
mob of Haitians reach out as goods are thrown from a nearby shop in the
downtown business district on January 17, 2010 in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti.
6.Looters
fight for goods outside a grocery store on January 17, 2010 in
Port-au-Prince, five days after a massive earthquake devastated Haiti's
infrastructure and killed tens of thousands of people.
7.A
Haitian police officer points a rifle at a man during a looting spree
in the downtown business district on January 17, 2010 in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
8.A
Brazilian and Chinese search and rescue team searches through the
rubble of the headquarters of the United Nation's mission in Haiti in
Port au Prince January 15, 2010.
9.U.S.
rescue worker Sam Grey, of the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue,
holds a monitor showing a woman, Jean Luis Sainte Heleine, 28, alive
and conscious, buried under the collapsed University of Port-au-Prince,
Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010.
10.Russian
rescuers carry Senvilo Ovri, 11, a survivor of the earthquake, out of
the remains of a house in Port-au-Prince January 16, 2010.
11.Haitians
survey the damage to a building that collapsed onto a road in downtown
Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010.
12.Children walk past a crack caused by the earthquake in a street in
Port-au-Prince January 16, 2010.
13.A
man peeks through the gates from outside the International Committee of
the Red Cross headquarters in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010.
14.People
take water after breaking a pipe, on January 16, 2010 in the shantytown
"Cité Soleil" in Port-au-Prince following the 7.0-magnitude quake on
January 12.
15.A
woman waits for medical attention for her son in Port Au Prince General
Hospital on January 16th, 2010.
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16.Georges
Boutin of Fort Lauderdale, Florida (with hacksaw) and daughter (right)
Pier Boutin of Lenox, Massachussets use a hacksaw to amputate a woman's
leg in Port Au Prince General Hospital. It was the first surgery at the
country's largest hospital since the earthquake.
17.A
temporary camp for homeless Haitians is seen from a Canadian Forces
helicopter fly-over in Port-au-Prince on Sunday Jan. 17, 2010.
18.A boy holds a candle at a camp for earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010.
19.A boy lies injured in a makeshift hospital after the earthquake in
Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010.
20.Haitian-American
people line up as they board a U.S. C-17 Globemaster III plane to be
evacuated from Port-au-Prince January 16, 2010.
21.A
young child's dead body lies covered on a table outside the general
hospital's morgue on January 16, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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22.A
Haitian mass grave receives unclaimed, unidentified bodies in the
suburbs of Port-au-Prince January 16, 2010.
23.In
the outskirts of Port Au Prince, bodies, apparently of the victims of
the earthquake, are dumped in piles just off the roadside. Photo taken
January 15, 2010.
24.People walk on a debris-covered street in Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010.
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25.Men
stand near a burning body left in the street in Port-au-Prince, Sunday,
Jan. 17, 2010. U.N. peacekeepers patrolling the capital said popular
anger is rising and warned authorities and aid organizations to
increase security to guard against looting after Tuesday's earthquake.
26.Looters
run during a police assault, January 17, 2010 near the Hypolite Market
in Port-au-Prince. Hundreds of rioters ransacked Hyppolite market in
the heart of the devastated city as survivors besieged hospitals and
make-shift field clinics, some carrying the injured on their backs or
on carts.
27.A
Haitian national policeman takes position during riots with looters in
downtown Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010.
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28.Looters
steal a bag of another looter who lies dead, shot by the police on
January 17, 2010 near the Hypolite Market in Port-au-Prince.
29A
man with a knife and other looters fight for goods taken from a
destroyed store in downtown Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010.
30.A
man points a gun toward a crowd in downtown Port-au-Prince January 15,
2010. The man fired warning shots into the air to prevent looters from
ransacking his shop, a Reuters photographer witnessed.
31.A
man pulls the body of an earthquake victim from a coffin in order to
steal the coffin at the cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15,
2010.
32.The ruins of a cathedral are seen in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
33.A man rents mobile phone chargers by the hour in downtown Port-au-Prince
January 17, 2010.
34.Scavengers
climb across the rubble of quake-damaged buildings in downtown
Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Haitian police scattered
hundreds of stone-throwing looters.
35.In
this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Air Force Tech Sgt. Nicholas
Wentworth hangs an intravenous solution inside an MH-60S Sea Hawk prior
to flying an earthquake victim to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson
(CVN 70) on Sunday Jan. 17, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
36.Haitian
citizens crowd a ship in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Jan. 16,
2010.
37.Women
pray during Mass held outside the city's main Cathedral in
Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. About one hundred people
celebrated Mass Sunday morning just outside the Cathedral, which was
totally destroyed in Tuesday's earthquake.
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