In Quake-Ravaged Haiti, Rescuers Scramble To Save People Trapped In Rubble
"Everything was moving — houses, cars — and everyone was crying," said one Haitian resident from an area close to the earthquake's epicenter. At least 1,297 people are confirmed dead.
Search-and-rescue teams are pulling people from collapsed buildings in Haiti, as international aid efforts ramped up in the hardest hit areas in the southwest of the Caribbean nation after a devastating earthquake.
As of Monday afternoon, officials say that at least 1,297 people are confirmed dead in the latest devastation, and at least 5,700 more are injured. The magnitude 7.2-earthquake that struck early Saturday is the deadliest one since Jan. 2010 to hit the country, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere.
