(19 Jan 2010)
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of rescue team searching for survivors in the rubble
2. Mid of rescue worker in mechanical digger
3. Mid of digger shovelling debris
4. Mid of rescue team scaling rubble
5. Mid of rescue team clearing the rubble
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Chief Gel Peso, member of rescue team:
"When we were making the tunnel to get access to the people in life, so we saw on both sides the bodies of dead people."
7. Mid of rescue workers at the scene
8. Mid of rescue worker wearing headlight
9. Mid of street scene, man moving tyres
10. Wide of people dancing on street near car
11. Tracking shot of dozens of people lining the pavement, some dancing and clapping, UPSOUND: music in background
STORYLINE:
International rescue teams battled through the night searching for people trapped under the rubble of a collapsed bank in Port-au-Prince, nearly a week after the catastrophic earthquake struck the island.
French, Panamanian and Dominican rescuers used heavy machinery to move huge slabs of concrete to clear the area in search of buried survivors.
French rescuers say that they have used sonar imaging tools and concluded that several people may still be alive under the building in an uptown neighbourhood of the capital.
Earlier on Monday, some 140 hours after the quake, rescuers pulled two Haitian women alive from a collapsed university building.
Meanwhile, local media reported that a night time curfew had been imposed by the government to ward off the threat of looters, but there was little sign of security forces in most parts of the city.
Looting and violence had flared up again earlier in the day, as hundreds of desperate people clambered over the broken walls of shops to grab anything they could, including toothpaste, now valuable for lining nostrils against the stench of Port-au-Prince''s dead.
Police fired into the air as young men fought each other over rum and beer with broken bottles and machetes.
There are fears that if aid is not delivered quickly enough security, which had been boosted by the UN peacekeeping mission before the earthquake, will worsen.
The latest casualty report, from the European Commission citing Haitian government figures, doubled previous estimates of the dead from the magnitude-7.0 quake, to approximately 200-thousand, with some 70-thousand bodies recovered and trucked off to mass graves.
If accurate, that would make Haiti''s disaster close to as deadly as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed an estimated 230-thousand people in a dozen countries.
European Commission analysts estimate 250-thousand were injured and 1.5 (m) million were made homeless.
Men, women and children are living under plastic sheets in makeshift camps and in dust-covered automobiles, or have taken to the road seeking out relatives in the safer countryside.
Keyword Haiti earthquake
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