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Haitian Red Cross:Between
45 thousand and 50 thousand dead persons in Haiti


Responsible you admit that of the Haitian Red Cross nobody knows with precision neither you are in situation to confirm a number determined of dead persons, but estimate between 45 thousand and 50 thousand the fatal victims


They may have perished because of the earthquake in Haiti, according to Víctor Jackson between 45,000 and 50,000 people, one responsible of Haitian Red Cross, once this Thursday was quoted by the local broadcasting station Radio Metropole.
After indicating that nobody knows with precision neither is in situation to confirm a number determined of dead persons, Jackson represented that the Red Cross calculates that they are between 45,000 and 50,000 the ones that lost the life because of the earthquakes registered on Tuesday that it is three million injured people and.
We thought that three million people have been affected at the country, that they have gotten wounded or that they have lost his homes, you indicated .

The broadcasting station did not specify where Jackson did these declarations.
The capital of Haiti, Port-Au-Prince, she is the more city affected by the seisms of Tuesday. The epicenter of the more fortress of 7 grades, of the scale Richter, placed him to solo 15 kilometers of the capital.
Hundred of buildings collapsed or they proved to be damaged by the seismic rays, some so significant like the National Palace, seat of the Presidency, the cathedral of Port-Au-Prince, or the Hotel Christopher, the United Nations’s seat.
In default of an official number of dead persons and wounded persons, the authorities, like the president Rene Préval or the first minister Jean Max Bellerive they have talked about thousands, tens of thousands or enclosure hundred of thousand of victims.
The hospitals that have remained standing are overflowed, at the streets the cadavers accumulate and there are numerous wounded persons expecting assistance between ruins and debris.

The help of the international community, that has answered to generously the calls of the authorities of the poorest country of America, is coming from yesterday, in spite of the fact that the airport of Port-Au-Prince proved to be damaged in the earthquake.