First reports from the epicentre of Tuesday‘s earthquake in Haiti suggest the damage is even more dramatic than in the capital, according to a British Broadcasting Corporation report.
They say the scene in Leogane, west of Port-au-Prince, is ”apocalyptic”, with thousands left homeless and almost every building destroyed.
In the capital, survivors have become desperate as they wait for aid being handed out by international agencies.
But in a sign of hope, rescuers pulled a woman alive from rubble on Sunday.
”It‘s a little miracle,” BBC quoted the woman‘s husband, Mr. Reinhard Riedl, as telling the Associated Press news agency after she was rescued from a luxury hotel.
The United Nigerian says up to 80-90 percent of buildings in Leogane, about 19km west of Port-au-Prince, have been destroyed.
The BBC‘s Mark Doyle - who travelled to the town on Saturday - said people had taken refuge in the surrounding sugarcane fields or mangrove swamps.
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