Horror in Haiti: Hunger Strikes and Survivors Looted Un Warehouses
by Amid the great desolation in which he became the country where the dead are stacked in the streets, there are serious risks of epidemics and the delivery of aid is a difficult task-a UN spokesman confirmed that people took the food. Three days after the earthquake, searching for people under the rubble is increasingly desperate.
The situation of death, pain and horror in Haiti is so tremendous that it is not surprising. And started happening yesterday than expected because of the terrible earthquake survivors are hungry (no food or water) and lead raids. This morning, UN spokeswoman Emilia Casella said that the warehouses of World Food Program (WFP) in Port au Prince were looted.
“Our stores were looted in Puerto Prince. Resupply will be necessary,” said Casella. He added that this type of problem was “foreseeable” in disasters. He noted that the earthquake damaged some shops infrastructure, facilitating people to enter the premises without force and took ownership of some foods.
Soldiers of UN peacekeepers patrolling the capital said people are increasingly angry that the aid has not been delivered more quickly, and Brazilian forces warned the aid convoys to add security personnel to guard against looting. “Unfortunately, they are becoming increasingly angry and impatient,” said David Wimhurst, spokesman for the peacekeeping mission of the UN, led by Brazil.
“We all realize,” Wimhurst said the situation is becoming more tense, as most needy people are still waiting for supplies. I think that feelings are stirring. “People almost fight over water,” said the lifeguard Fevil Dubien while distributing the liquid from a van in a neighborhood in northern Port-au-Prince.
Doctors and search dogs, rescue workers and troops arrived Tuesday in dozens of flights to this ravaged land, but traffic jams are everywhere, including the main airport, no control tower and with little space for unloading and fuel for aircraft.
The International Red Cross estimated that between 45,000 and 50,000 people died in the earthquake. General Hospital Outside the capital, he created a makeshift storage of bodies in the parking lot, with hundreds of bodies that seek to survivors grieving relatives and acquaintances.
Meanwhile, rescuers and survivors are desperate Haitians on the third day after the earthquake that has left people alive under the rubble. The task is increasingly time trial because it drains over time.
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