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Haiti in ruins and more than 100,000 estimated killed by the earthquake |
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By José Luis Soto, Espacinsular 
| | PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI, 14 January 2010: Thousands of dead following the earthquake in Haiti. Some speak of more than 100,000, others of half a million. What’s certain is that we have already seen a great many in the streets of the Haitian capital.
At the present time Haiti has no services: water, electricity, telephone and, least of all, Internet.
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A first count by this reporter and other colleagues from nearby Dominican Republic indicates that there are dozens of people lying on Delmas Avenue and in the rubble calling for help.
The situation is serious.
The Dominican authorities have sent aid. The first to arrive brought medicine, water trucks, mobile kitchens, and there were fire-brigade units to help mitigate the disaster that has struck the country.
This morning we are going to walk through the centre of Port au Prince, a city that has been completely destroyed.
To our Haitian colleagues: we are staying in the Dominican Embassy so we can make contact, due to the fact that there is no possibility to get in touch by telephone.
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