Chinese victim found
Source: Xinhua |
January 17, 2010, Sunday
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A CHINESE body had been found among the rubble of a building destroyed by Haiti's massive earthquake, Chinese rescue team leader Huang Jianfa said in Port-au-Prince early yesterday.
The body was found at 3:30am local time among the ruins of the collapsed UN Stabilization Mission building in Haiti.
They also found a camera and a video camera, which belonged to the Chinese peacekeeping police in Haiti.
The Chinese rescue team members and the Chinese peacekeepers held a mourning ceremony on the site, standing in five lines and making three bows to the deceased's body.
The rescue team is doing everything possible to speed up the search for another seven policemen still missing, but chances of their survival were slim, said Huang.
The UN building under which they were buried was practically flattened in the 7.3-magnitude temblor, leaving almost no space for life in the debris, Huang said.
Built halfway up a hill, the UN mission building took a harder hit from the quake than constructions at ground level, he said.
US and French rescuers, who were first on the scene, quit searching it, believing that finding any survivors was a mission impossible.
Not far from the rubble, families of trapped UN peacekeepers waited quietly as aid workers from China, Brazil, Israel and Nepal cut through collapsed walls and lifted debris in search of possible signs of life.
Four of the missing Chinese officers were part of a six-member team that only arrived in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday afternoon.
The eight Chinese officers were meeting UN officials in the building when the quake struck.
There were 142 Chinese peacekeeping police officers in Haiti.
The body was found at 3:30am local time among the ruins of the collapsed UN Stabilization Mission building in Haiti.
They also found a camera and a video camera, which belonged to the Chinese peacekeeping police in Haiti.
The Chinese rescue team members and the Chinese peacekeepers held a mourning ceremony on the site, standing in five lines and making three bows to the deceased's body.
The rescue team is doing everything possible to speed up the search for another seven policemen still missing, but chances of their survival were slim, said Huang.
The UN building under which they were buried was practically flattened in the 7.3-magnitude temblor, leaving almost no space for life in the debris, Huang said.
Built halfway up a hill, the UN mission building took a harder hit from the quake than constructions at ground level, he said.
US and French rescuers, who were first on the scene, quit searching it, believing that finding any survivors was a mission impossible.
Not far from the rubble, families of trapped UN peacekeepers waited quietly as aid workers from China, Brazil, Israel and Nepal cut through collapsed walls and lifted debris in search of possible signs of life.
Four of the missing Chinese officers were part of a six-member team that only arrived in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday afternoon.
The eight Chinese officers were meeting UN officials in the building when the quake struck.
There were 142 Chinese peacekeeping police officers in Haiti.
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