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4 children pulled out alive from Haitian school wreckage
Rescuers pulled four children alive on Saturday from the rubble of a three-story Haitian school that collapsed on classrooms filled with students and teachers, killing at least 84 people.
- AP
- Published: 08:54 November 9, 2008
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- Search teams from the United States and France joined the hunt for survivors in Haiti.
Port-au-Prince: Rescuers pulled four children alive on Saturday from the rubble of a three-story Haitian school that collapsed on classrooms filled with students and teachers, killing at least 84 people.
Emergency workers cradled the dazed children in their arms and rushed them into ambulances on Saturday morning, UN police spokesman Andre Leclerc said.
The extent of the injuries to the two girls, ages 3 and 5, and two boys, a 7-year-old and a teenager, was not known, Leclerc said. But he added the 3-year-old had a cut on her head and seemed to be OK.
"She was talking and drinking juice," Leclerc said.
Search teams from the United States and France joined the hunt for survivors in the remains of the College La Promesse in suburban Port-au-Prince, which tumbled to the ground on Friday.
Thousands of Haitians cheered and shouted directions to rescuers and trucks carrying oxygen and other medical supplies rumbled up the mountainside.
Nadia Lochar, civil protection coordinator for the western region that includes Petionville, said the death toll had risen to 84 and that another 150 people were injured in the collapse.
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