50 dead in Haitain grade-school collapse

50 dead in Haitain grade-school collapse

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PETION-VILLE, Haiti (AFP) — About 50 schoolchildren and teachers were killed when a shantytown grade school packed with hundreds of students collapsed during classes, a government official said.

The three-story La Promesse (The Promise) school in Petion-ville, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, caved in in a heap of cement slabs and twisted steel rods at about 10:00 am (1500 GMT) Friday, trapping scores inside.

By late in the day at around 50 bodies, most of them children, had been found, officials said.

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Saw this on the news was upsetting , apparently there is around 30-50 dead mostly little kids. And it said that theres even more still trapped in the rubble. And they don't even have and good search and rescue equiptment at the scene yet just U.N peacekeepers. It also destroyed around 5 near by homes when it fell.

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