Hope against hope? by Barbora Misakova

It was just yesterday what I wrote an article about a man from Haiti who survived 27 days under the ruins of his house with no food or water. I wrote that this miracle represents that glimmer of hope which Haitians need the most. But now it seems that the hope is leaving them. Most of the people are still trapped under ruins and waiting for rescuers. Unfortunately, the biggest part of them is already dead. The Caribbean Market was the five-story and the capital’s largest supermarket popular with well-off Haitians. After January’s earthquake it partially collapsed and killed many people whose bodies still lay nearby covered in white sheets. As the life goes on, r! escuers are looking for signs of life under the rest of the collapsed buildings and surrounding of some others is cleaning up. One private contractor was just recovering the bodies of people killed last month in this supermarket. While he was working with an excavator to remove bodies the building, badly damaged in the devastating earthquake, started collapsing. Fortunately no one from his crew was hurt or killed, but according to site supervisor Meir Vaknin “there were looters inside the building.” As he estimated five to eight people to be in the supermarket, rescuers were called again. After its collapse rescue workers were trying to search for survivors with ultrasensitive listening equipment and specialized cameras. After almost six hours of searching they gave it up. As there were no signs of life, they began to leave the site. Tomorrow it will be exactly one month after this terrible catastrophe, but there are still many people not giving it up and trying! to find their relatives and friends. God bless them!

! related story (sgx16439): http://www.france24.com/en/20100210-haiti-supermarket-rescue...

by Barbora Misakova for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

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