(18 Jan 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Various shots of police firing guns and chasing looters AUDIO: gunshots
2. Looters fighting over items
3. Various of looters scrambling out of shattered buildings with items
4. Wide of people carrying goods through streets
5. Mid of flames in street
6. Various of police striking at and chasing off looters
7. Close-up of police officer yelling at people
8. Close-up of man carrying box of cigarettes
9. People throwing boxes of goods off roof to people below
10. People scrambling out of destroyed building with items
11. Tracking shot of men holding wooden planks driving down street
12. Wide of collapsed building being looted
13. Youth waving plank as people fight over goods
14. Youths carrying planks and sticks running through street
15. Mid of youths drinking rum
16. Pan to follow youths carrying load of goods through street
17. Wide of police arriving
18. Tight of police
19. Mid of injured youth
20. Tight of injured youth''s face
21. Travelling shot of Red Cross officials arriving
22. Mid of injured youth on ground
23. Tight of blood-soaked pants
24. Red Cross workers carrying injured youth to truck
25. Workers putting youth on truck
26. Mid of truck backing up
STORYLINE
Police fired at looters in downtown Port-au-Prince on Monday as hundreds of young men and boys clambered up broken walls to break into shops and take whatever they could find amidst the earthquake debris.
Help was still not reaching many victims of last Tuesday''s quake - choked back by transportation bottlenecks, bureaucratic confusion, fear of attacks on aid convoys, the collapse of local authority and the sheer scale of the need.
At one spot on Monday, people flooded out of a building with items including canned food and cigarettes.
Others tossed products from rooftops down to crowds waiting below.
Especially prized was toothpaste, which people smear under their noses to fend off the stench of decaying bodies.
Police arrived and fired shots to drive away the looters. They hit others with sticks as they came out of the building.
The crowds didn''t retreat far.
At one place, youths fought over a stock of rum with broken bottles, machetes and razors and police fired shots into the air to break up the crowd.
Even so, the US Army''s on-the-ground commander, Lieutenant General Ken Keen, said the city was seeing less violence than before the earthquake.
Six days after the quake, dozens of rescue crews were still trying to find victims trapped under piles of concrete and debris.
Troops, doctors and aid workers continued to flow into Haiti on Monday.
Roughly 200-thousand people may have been killed in the magnitude-7.0 quake, the European Union said, quoting Haitian officials who also said about 70,000 bodies have been recovered so far.
EU officials estimated that about 250,000 were injured and 1.5 (m) million were homeless.
Even many people whose houses survived are living outside for fear unstable buildings could collapse in aftershocks.
European nations pledged more than a half-billion (b) US dollars in emergency and long-term aid, on top of at least 100 (m) million dollars promised earlier by the US.
Keyword Haiti earthquake
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