November 8, 2008

Bodies found in classroom brings death toll to 84 in school building collapse

By Calvin Palmer
Rescuers this morning uncovered a classroom containing 21 dead students in the collapsed school building in Haiti.  The grim discovery brought the number of dead to 84, according to the AFP news agency.  More than 150 others have been injured.
The three-story La Promesse school in Petionville, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, caved in yesterday morning in a [...]