HAITI EARTHQUAKE SURVIVORS BLOCKADE ROADS WITH PILES

OF CORPSES IN PROTEST AT LACK OF AID

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Desperate Haitians have set up roadblocks of corpses in Port-au-Prince

to protest at the lack of emergency aid reaching them after the
catastrophic earthquake.

Although billions of pounds have already been pledged to the

devastated country, help is only just beginning to trickle through to
survivors.

Rescue efforts have been blighted by poor infrastructure and lack of

heavy lifting equipment - as well as the damage wrought by the
disaster.

Bodies fill the front yard of the morgue in Port-au-Prince. Survivors

have started using corpses as road blocks
An aerial view shows a ruined cathedral after Tuesday's earthquake.
Troops and planeloads of food and medicine streamed into Haiti to aid
a traumatized nation
Despairing: Amid a scene of total devastation, one resident sits on a
chair, his head in his hand

Shaul Schwarz, a photographer for TIME magazine, said he saw at least

two roadblocks formed with bodies of earthquake victims and rocks.

'They are starting to block the roads with bodies. It's getting ugly out
there. People are fed up with getting no help,' he said.

There were reports of machete-wielding gangs roaming the debris-

strewn streets looking for food. At times fighting broke out as they
struggled for scant supplies.

The humanitarian crisis in the capital is the worst many aid workers
have ever seen.

With streets and buildings littered with rotting corpses and filled with
the sounds of screams, some have compared it to a scene from hell.
Miracle: Rescuers carry a three-month-old baby found alive after being
buried under rubble for two days
Survivors gathered around bodies in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince
photographed during a joint Red Cross Red Crescent/ECHO (European
Community Humanitarian Organization) aerial assessment mission
Despair: Shocked crowds throng the ruined streets, many homeless,
many simply afraid to go into any building
Missing: Briton Ann Barnes is personal assistant to the UN police
commissioner in Haiti

Rezene Tesfamariam, Haiti director of Plan International, described

people using bare hands shovels and pick axes to reach people still
trapped beneath collapsed buildings.

He said: "There are people still alive underneath, you can hear them
crying for help, but time is running out. It is beyond the means of
individuals to reach them.

'They are trying move concrete with their hands. What is desperately
needed is proper machinery and equipment to lift the rubble.

Mr Tesfamariam, who lost his own home in the quake, described the
disaster was the worst he had witnessed in his many years as an aid
worker.

'I have seen refugees fleeing war and cyclones hitting villages, but in
those cases at least you have time to run away,' he said.
'In just a few seconds so many lives were wiped out. Port-au-Prince
looks like it has been bombed.

'My house has been destroyed. I went back there (in the aftermath)
and a neighbor called my name. She said there were children under
the rubble. I shouted to them and they called back.

'I reported it to the UN so they would know where to come and get
them out but there are people everywhere crying out for help. It is one
thing I will never be able forget.'

Thousands of injured people spent a third night twisted in pain, lying

on pavements waiting for help as their despair turned to anger.

'We've been out here waiting for three days and three nights but
nothing has been done for us, not even a word of encouragement from
the president,' said Pierre Jackson, nursing his mother and sister who
lay whimpering with crushed legs.

'What should we do?'

Thousands of homeless people have set up tent cities as they wait for
aid to arrive

People gather around a petrol pump seeking fuel. Petrol shortage is

causing long queues and angry customers

The Haitian Red Cross said it believed 45,000 to 50,000 people had
died and 3 million more - one third of Haiti's population - were injured
or left homeless by the 7.0 quake that hit on Tuesday.

HOW TO HELP

Donations to the DEC Haiti appeal can be made by calling 0370

60 60 900, through the website www.dec.org.uk or over the
counter at any post office or high street bank, quoting Freepay
1449.

Cheques payable to DEC Haiti Earthquake can also been sent

to PO Box 999, London, EC3A 3AA.
Fears were growing today for British woman Ann Barnes, a PA to the
United Nations police commissioner in Haiti.

The UN headquarters in Port-au-Prince has completely collapsed, killing

many who were inside.

Miss Barnes has been missing since the earthquake though the UN has
not confirmed that she is among the dead.

Officials from the Foreign Office said that 30 other British nationals
living in Port-au-Prince had been in touch and were safe and well.

The Haitian government - weak even before the disaster - has all but
disintegrated leaving the island teetering on the brink of anarchy.

Hundreds of criminals escaped when the island's main prison

collapsed. Looters swarmed unchallenged into collapsed supermarkets
and warehouses, snatching electronics and bags of rice.

Shanty towns on the outskirts of the Haitian capital were flattened by

the earthquake - the worst to strike the island nation in 200 years
James Girly, 64, of the US is brought out of a destroyed building of the
Montana Hotel where he was trapped for 50 hours in Port-au-Prince

HOW BID TO SAVE TRAPPED GIRL ENDED IN TRAGEDY

Trapped beneath the crumbled remains of her home, the 9-

year-old girl could be heard begging for rescue as neighbors
clawed at sand and debris with their bare hands.

It had been two days since the earthquake collapsed the

house, trapping Haryssa Keem Clerge inside the basement.

Friends and neighbors braved aftershocks to climb over the

rubble, one of hundreds of toppled structures teetering on the
side of a ravine.

In a city full of people desperately waiting for more help than

neighbors can muster, it never came for Haryssa.

Just hours after her screams renewed rescuers' hopes, the

child's lifeless body was finally pulled from the mass of
concrete and twisted metal.
Wrapped in a green bath towel, it was placed inside a loose
desk drawer. With nowhere to take it, the body was then left
on the hood of a battered Isuzu Trooper.

'There are no police, no anybody,' said the child's despairing

godmother, Kettely Clerge.

Neighbours had to hold her back as she walked toward the

building's winding, partially collapsed stairway, wailing: 'I want
to see her!'

A day earlier, the little girl's mother, Lauranie Jean, was pulled
from the rubble of the same house. She lay moaning inside a
tent as volunteers’ rubbed ointment into open wounds on her
sides.

The family has now taken refuge in a dirt playground - one of

hundreds of open spaces across Port-au-Prince that people are
filling each night to try to avoid the risk of aftershocks.

Officials are making increasingly desperate efforts to deal with the tens
of thousands of dead.

Presidents Rene Preval said that 7,000 people were yesterday buried in
a mass grave. The Haitian Red Cross has run out of body bags.

Corpses were piled on pickup trucks and delivered to the General

Hospital in Port-au-Prince, where hospital director Guy LaRoche
estimated the bodies piled outside the morgue numbered 1,500.

Aid workers reported seeing children sleeping among the dead.

Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, presents unique

logistical challenges for aid workers.

Ships are struggling to use the ruined port, while aid organizations said
there appeared to be little coordination of supplies arriving at the
reopened airport.

At one point planes were arriving faster than ground crews could
handle them and US authorities had to restrict flights to Haiti for fear
they would run out of fuel before they could land.

The Haitian government said that there was no room on ramps for
planes to unload their cargo and that some planes on the ground didn't
have enough fuel to leave.
Overhead, two dozen planes circled for more than two hours, and
many of them were diverted to Santo Domingo or Florida.

Planes were parked with their wing tips overlapping.

Haiti has little or no heavy equipment to move rubble and attempts

were being made to bring some from the neighboring Dominican
Republic, along a narrow and easily-clogged road.

Aid has been delivered or promised from 30 countries. China sent a

plane carrying ten tons of tents, food and medical equipment, as well
as an earthquake rescue team.

The British government donated £6million to an appeal up by the

Disasters Emergency Committee for what Gordon Brown called a
'tragedy beyond imagination'.

Richard Santos, 47, of Washington, DC, speaks to a journalist in Port-

au-Prince as he is attended to by a French military rescuer from the
Security Civil after being brought out of the Montana Hotel. French
rescuers pulled seven Americans and one Haitian survivor
Desperate: Two girls queue for water (left) while one family resorts to
squatting on the street

The first British search and rescue workers to reach Haiti were today
scouring the rubble for survivors.

U.S. President Barack Obama pledged an initial $100million

(£61.4million) for Haiti quake relief on Thursday and enlisted former
U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to help raise more,
vowing to the Haitian people: 'You will not be forsaken.'

The United States was sending 3,500 soldiers, 300 medical personnel,
several ships and 2,200 Marines to Haiti.

Nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson will arrive today to

serve as a 'floating airport' for relief operations by its 19 helicopters.

Doctors in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, were

ill-equipped to treat the injured.
Survivors: Redjeson Hausteen, two, is carried from his collapsed home
by a rescue worker while Gladys Loiuis Jeune is pulled alive from the
rubble nearly 43 hours after Tuesday's earthquake
An injured man in a wheelchair looks at the collapsed Haitian
Governmental taxation building

Many hospitals are too badly damaged to use, and medics struggled to
treat crushed limbs and head wounds at makeshift clinics.

In the car park of the capital's L'Hopital de la Paix, those awaiting

treatment lay among the dead and dying in 90f heat.

A tearful man pointed to his young daughter, her legs broken and face
gashed. Her sister had died.

A little boy sobbed among the bodies while two injured women, their
legs crushed, propped each other up.
Sarlah Chand ,65, smiles as search and rescue workers tend to her
after they rescued her from under the rubble of what is left of the Hotel
Montana more than 50 hours after the massive earthquake
Ppolice officers from the Philippines search for colleagues who may be
trapped in the rubble of the UN Police Headquarters in Port-au-Prince

In a makeshift hospital at the Hotel Villa Creole Margaret Germaine-

Doillard, a French teacher in her 40s, lay on the ground drifting in and
out of consciousness.

She was on a second-floor balcony of her school when the earthquake

struck, celebrating a belated Christmas party with more than 300
students and teachers.

There is no way to know how many died at St-Louis de Gonzague, a

prestigious Roman Catholic school where some of Haiti's leaders have
studied, including former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier.

Germaine-Doillard said she knew of only about 10 students, several

teachers and the school's principal who survived.
As she lay in the 80-degree heat, her thoughts remained with her
pupils.

'We couldn't save the students,' she murmured. 'We couldn't save the
students.'

THE GOOGLE IMAGES THAT SHOW SCALE OF DISASTER

Google have also released satellite images of the devastation caused

in Haiti, after being asked by relief organizations and users to provide
up to date images of the country.

The pictures show the amount of damage caused to building in the

Port-au-Prince, as well as the destruction caused to the national
palace.
Before (left) and after satellite images released by Google Maps and
GeoEye after the earthquake
Satellite images show the damage caused to a large section of the
National Palace in the 7.0 quake

In a blog post, Dylan Lorimer and Jessica Pfund of the Google Map
Maker team wrote: 'We hope that Google Map Maker can also play a
role in disaster relief efforts.

'Today, we have made this Map Maker data for Haiti available to the
UN in its raw form for the earthquake relief efforts.'
These before and after pictures of the Sylvio Cator Stadium in Haiti
show the earthquake has destroyed part of the building and left the
ground strewn with debris