The tension rose on Sunday in Port-au-Prince, where police opened fire on looters, killing at least one, while rescuers made their way through the rubble and found more survivors the devastating earthquake on Tuesday.
Dodging the carcasses still accumulated in the streets, thousands of hungry people roaming the devastated Haitian capital seeking international aid arrives dropper and calling for medical assistance, five days after the earthquake of magnitude 7 according to the WHO would have left between 40,000 and 50,000 dead.
The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon on Sunday traveled to Haiti to observe first hand what it described as "the most serious humanitarian crisis in decades," while the humanitarian organization International Doctors Without Borders (MSF) launched an urgent appeal for medical supplies transported equipment to arrive as soon as possible.
And the true magnitude of the disaster emerged slowly. In Leogane, 17 km from Port au Prince and the epicenter of the quake, 90% of buildings were destroyed, according to the UN.
"This is truly the epicenter of the quake and many, many people died," exclaims David Orr of the GPA. "The soldiers speak of 20,000 to 30,000 dead."
NGO MSF opened an emergency hospital in Carrefour, a district near Leogane.
"The patients arrived in trucks or on the backs of men.
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