The UN World Food Programme had 15,000 tons of food aid in Haiti prior to Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake, stocks designed for hurricane relief. Spokeswoman Emilia Casella said local partners reported that the UN warehouse in Port-au-Prince's Cite Soleil neighbourhood was looted but the agency did not know how much aid was stolen or exactly when it was taken.
Clinton working on disaster fund
Washington, dc (AP):Former President Bill Clinton says he will try to pattern a disaster-assistance fund for earthquake-stricken Haiti along the same lines he and former President George H.W. Bush pursued for victims of the Asian tsunami. Clinton is a UN special envoy to Haiti, and President Barack Obama asked him to work with former President George W. Bush, the son of George H.W. Bush, on a fund-raising effort for victims of Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti.
'Heartbreaking'
BBC News:
Tuesday's earthquake has left as many as 50,000-100,000 people dead. Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said more than 15,000 bodies had already been recovered and buried, French news agency AFP reported. US President Barack Obama described the scale of the devastation as extraordinary and the losses suffered as "heartbreaking".