Washington: A mammoth relief operation slowly geared up on Thursday in a race against time to help survivors of the earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital of
Port-au-Prince.
People desperately tried to free those who remained totally or partially trapped by tons of concrete, while relief teams were distributing small quantities of food as thousands of hungry and traumatized residents wandered aimlessly through the streets of the city of 1.9 million.
The capital and its surroundings were the areas hardest hit by the powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck the impoverished Caribbean country on Tuesday afternoon.
Text: Agencies
Image: A Spanish rescuer carries two-year-old Redjeson Hausteen Claude after he was rescued from a collapsed home in Port-au-Prince, on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (Photograph copyright AP)
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