Girl found in Haiti quake rubble
Girl found in Haiti quake rubble
Girl found in Haiti quake rubble
French rescuers have pulled a teenage girl out of the rubble of a school Concrete Machine in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city.
Darlene Etienne had just started studying at the school when the disaster struck.
She was said to be severely dehydrated with a weak pulse and rescuers rushed her to a French-run field hospital, before later transferring her to a hospital ship moored off Haiti for treatment.
It is unusual for anyone to survive more than three days without water #x, but Etienne may have had access to some water from a bathroom in the collapsed building and rescuers said she mumbled something about having a small amount of Coca-Cola with her in the rubble.
Neighbours had earlier alerted rescuers after they heard a weak voice calling from under the rubble.
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On Tuesday, US troops pulled a man alive from under a collapsed building in the capital.
The 31-year-old man had a broken leg and was severely dehydrated, US authorities said.
The last previous rescue of someone trapped by the quake occurred Saturday, when a man was extricated from the ruins of a hotel grocery store.
'Delicate recovery'
Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull, reporting from Port-au-Prince, said that rescuers had faced "a delicate process" to pull Etienne from the rubble.
"It all happened very quickly, but rescue teams managed to get her outConcrete Machine and she was covered in layers of dust and concrete."
The situation is getting increasingly desperate for thousands of hungry survivors [AFP] Meanwhile,DVD Ripper, scenes of fighting have broken out in the Haitian capital as survivors continue to face severe food and water shortages two weeks after the earthquake devastated the Caribbean island.
On Tuesday outside the wrecked presidential palace, Brazilian UN peacekeeping troops fired tear gas at a crowd of thousands around a food-handout station.
"They're not violent, just desperate. They just want to eat," Brazilian army Colonel Fernando Soares said. "The problem is there is not enough food for everyone."
Facing persistent complaints by survivors that the huge amounts of aid flown in to Haiti is not reaching them on the ground, US and UN troops, as well as aid workers, have widened and intensified the distribution of food and water.
Al Jazeera's Sebstian Walker, reporting from the Haitian capital, said that there was still a bottleneck on the delivery of aid.
"Two weeks on, it is getting to be a desperate situation and people are nearing breaking point, as more fights are breaking out at food distribution points," he said.
However, despite some of the food handouts turning unruly, the UN said #x the overall security situation in the city remained stable.
"The vast majority of distributions in Haiti are being carried outConcrete Machine in an orderly manner. There are isolated, regrettable incidents but these are the exceptions and not the rule," the World Food Programme said.
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