Help steps up, but so does scale of Haiti tragedy (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Mon, 01/18/2010 - 6:03pm

People beg for food and water outside a supermarket in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010.<br /><br />Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday even while hundreds of thousands of Tuesday's quake victims struggled to find water or food.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - The staggering scope of Haiti's nightmare came into sharper focus Monday as authorities estimated 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless in the heart of this luckless land, where injured survivors still died in the streets, doctors pleaded for help and looters slashed at one another in the rubble.




 

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