US Marines arrive to deliver aid to earthquake victims
By NECN
(NECN/APTV) - The US Navy released video footage on Sunday of US Marines delivering aid supplies and vehicles to Haiti. AP Television could not independently verify the content of the footage, which purported to show a series of landing craft carrying goods from the USS Bataan to the Haitian shore, near Leogane, on Saturday. The 7.0-magnitude quake killed an estimated 200-thousand people, according to Haitian government figures cited by the European Commission. The UN said on Saturday the government had preliminarily confirmed 111,481 bodies, but that figure does not account for corpses buried by relatives. Countless dead remain buried in thousands of collapsed and toppled buildings in Port-au-Prince, while as many as 200-thousand have fled the city of 2 (m) million, the US Agency for International Development reported. With the rainy season on the way, UN relief workers are concerned that many Haitians are still homeless and the focus is now on providing shelter and medical treatment. About 609-thousand people are homeless in the capital's metropolitan area, and the United Nations estimates that up to 1 (m) million could leave Haiti's destroyed cities for rural areas already struggling with extreme poverty.
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