Haiti got a richter 7 earthquake

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An official with the World Food Programme said aid trucks were using armed guards and security had been posted at food distribution locations to protect staff. Some 10,000 U.S. troops are on the way to try to restore order.
Amid the death and destruction, survivors were still being found. One woman was plucked from the rubble of the university, 97 hours after being buried.

Tied up: A policeman restrains a looter suspected of stealing a tin of milk

At war: A policeman opens fire on the streets of Haiti. At least one rioter has been shot dead

On the run: Looters grab what they can and flee during a police assault near the Hypolite Market in Port-au-Prince

Surrender: Looters keep the hands up after seeing the police

 

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Anarchy: A man tries to keep crowds away from a woman injured during scuffles among people taking goods from quake-damaged stores

Desperation: Haitian people gather in the streets trying to get supplies

Street justice: Lynched then dragged through the streets of Port-au-Prince, the looter's body is battered with staves

Daggers drawn: One looter demands another's booty

JANUARY 17: The rubble of the National Cathedral remains on January 17, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

 

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Brazilian peacekeepers patrol close to the Cathedral as they pickup bodies from the street in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010

A woman sits as others walk in front of the collapsed Cathedral of Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010

 

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A Haitian man waves to a Navy helicopter as it prepares to land to deliver some water as help continues to arrive for victims

Earthquake survivors look up at a helicopter flying over Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010

Earthquake survivors reach for food being distributed by the UN near Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010.

Haitians rush to pick up water just dropped from a Navy helicopter

 

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U.N. soldier patrols where earthquake survivors line up for food distributed by the UN

 

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The Cathedral sits among other damaged buildings

The U.S. carrier Carl Vinson sits in waters off Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, after arriving as part of the relief effort to aide survivors of the earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

People crowd a boat in waters off in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010

A man pulls the body of an earthquake victim from a coffin in order to steal the coffin at the cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday leaving thousands dead and many displaced. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

JANUARY 17: A metal crown lies amongst the rubble of the National Cathedral

The relatives of a woman who was killed in the earthquake attend her funeral in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010.

JANUARY 17: The rubble of the National Cathedral remains

Lionel Michaud mourns the death of his wife, Lormeny Nathalie, and child Christian

A cemetery worker rests Thursday before burying another earthquake victim in a Port-au-Prince cemetery. The tens of thousands of bodies have overwhelmed the city's morgue, hospitals and cemeteries, forcing families to abandon their dead. Many bodies are being dumped unceremoniously in hastily dug mass graves outside the city. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

 

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People walk in front of a destroyed cemetery

A cross hangs from the Cathedral of Port-au-Prince

Earthquake survivors use fruit and rags to help cover the smell of decomposing bodies trapped in collapsed buildings and lying in the streets

People ride with a coffin on top of a car as they arrive at the morgue

Bodies lie in an open coffin abandoned on the side of a garbage dump

 

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Scavengers look for goods amid the rubble of collapsed buildings

People fight over goods scavenged from the rubble

People, carrying scavenged goods, run away from the police

A man adjusts a piece of cloth over his face as he and others try to recover a friend's wife in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste)

A man holds two bottle of fuel as people crowd around a gas pump Thursday Jan. 14, 2010 in Por-au-Prince, Haiti. Gas shortage is causing long lines and angry customers. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste)

 

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Chinese rescuers mourn as bodies of buried Chinese peacekeepers in Haiti are retrieved from ruins, in Port-au-Prince on January 16, 2010. Huang Jianfa, chief of the Chinese rescue team, said to Xinhua that all eight buried Chinese staff were confirmed dead.

 

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Teresa Teng?

 

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A woman runs from the scene of a collapsed, burning store in Port-au-Prince yesterday - but it is hard to tell if she is fleeing in fear or sprinting to keep the goods she has acquired safe

Aid: An armed UN security guard wearing a protective face mask guards the stock of protein bars in Petionville

Help: Three hungry young girls beg for protein bars from UN workers in Petionville

Crush: People swarm a UN aid convoy to grab at food and supplies in Petionville

Escape: Hundreds of Haitians clamber on board a boat at a port near Port-au-Prince as the exodus from the devastated country continues

Armed men battle over supplies on the streets of Port-au-Prince as the country descends into anarchy

A UN truck dumps bodies outside Port-au-Prince

 

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A Haitian national police officer fires shots at looters in Port au Prince
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Police arrest local men after they were found to be carrying a machete
Picture: GETTY

A Brazilian UN peacekeeper looks at the bodies of two men who were shot by unidentified men that accused them of looting in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince
Picture: AP

People dig through rubble to salvage what they can from a building that was destroyed during the earthquake
Picture: GETTY

 

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A Hiatian national policeman takes position during riots with looters in downtown Port-au-Prince
Picture: REUTERS

Local residents stand in line to buy petrol at a fuel station
Picture: REUTERS

Father Kenel Alphone, Pastor of the St. Louis King of Spain Catholic Church, poses for a photograph prior to delivering a Sunday Mass outside the collapsed church in Port-au-Prince
Picture: AP

A Haitian woman prays at a small service
Picture: AP

 

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i think after destruction is more dangerous than the actual destruction...

the country may turn into civil war...

 

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UN Secratary General Ban Ki-moon visits MINUSTAH's former headquarters at the Christopher Hotel in Port-au-Prince
Picture: GETTY

An aerial view of the damaged presidential palace in Port-au-Prince
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Almost 200 evacuees crowd into a C-17 Globemaster at the Port-Au-Prince airport. The evacuees were taken to Orlando, Florida
Picture: AP

 

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Almost 200 evacuees crowd into a C-17 Globemaster at the Port-Au-Prince airport. The evacuees were taken to Orlando, Florida
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Do you have American passports? Lucky people...Hell is down there...

 

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Haitian-American people line up as they board a U.S. C-17 Globemaster III plane to be evacuated from Port-au-Prince January 16, 2010. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

 

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Looters fight for goods outside a grocery store on January 17, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, five days after a massive earthquake devastated Haiti's infrastructure and killed tens of thousands of people. (JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)

A mob of Haitians reach out as goods are thrown from a nearby shop in the downtown business district on January 17, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

A Haitian police officer points a rifle at a man during a looting spree in the downtown business district on January 17, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Men stand near a burning body left in the street in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. U.N. peacekeepers patrolling the capital said popular anger is rising and warned authorities and aid organizations to increase security to guard against looting after Tuesday's earthquake. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

 

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Looters run during a police assault, January 17, 2010 near the Hypolite Market in Port-au-Prince.

A Haitian national policeman takes position during riots with looters in downtown Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

Looters steal a bag of another looter who lies dead, shot by the police on January 17, 2010 near the Hypolite Market in Port-au-Prince. (Olivier Laban Mattei/AFP/Getty Images)

The ruins of a cathedral are seen in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Marco Dormino/MINUSTAH via Getty Images)