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- Location: Petionville, Haiti
- Confirmed dead: 90CNN: Police detain owner of collapsed Haiti school (November 9, 2008)
- Injury count: 200-210CNN.com: Death Toll in Haiti... (November 8, 2008)
- Students body size: 700CNN.com: Death Toll in Haiti... (November 8, 2008)
- Cause: Poor constructionCNN.com: Death Toll in Haiti... (November 8, 2008)
- Second story of the building reportedly collapsed onto the firstInternational Herald Tribune: School Collapses... (November 7, 2008)
- Building had three floorsBBC News: School Collapses in Haiti Capital (November 7, 2008)
- School building included a kindergartenInternational Herald Tribune: School Collapses... (November 7, 2008)
- The U.S. Agency for International Development sent a disaster assistance response team that arrived within hours to helpCNN.com: Death Toll in Haiti... (November 8, 2008)
- United Nations peacekeepers and The Red Cross arrived to help at the scene of the disasterChicagoTribune.com: School Building Collapses in Haiti... (November 7, 2008)
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A school collapsed outside the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on November 7, 2008, killing at least 90 children and adults, trapping an untold number of others inside. Rescuers are working frantically to dig through the rubble of the two-story building, which reportedly pancaked and is blamed on poor construction. The search has continued for over 24 hours in and around the school that held a reported 700 children.CNN.com: Death Toll in Haiti... (November 8, 2008)
Four children were rescued from the rubble on November 8, 2008, but 100-200 students may still be trapped.CNN: Rescue workers search for survivors of Haiti collapse (November 8, 2008) Fortin Augustin, the owner of the school, was apprehended by the police.CNN: Police detain owner of collapsed Haiti school (November 9, 2008)
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"Like an Earthquake"
According to BBC, Brazilian Maj. Gen. Carlos dos Santos Cruz, a commander for Haiti's United Nation troops, said that the scene was "like an earthquake." As to the extent of the damage and casualties, he said, "You have a lot of people under the debris. We don't know how many exactly but there are a lot of people there because they were attending school."BBC News: School Collapses in Haiti Capital (November 7, 2008) -
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http://GiveToAustin.org/HelpHatiti: according to @PiH-org #haiti's entire 2010 class of nurses dead due to collapse of school building
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RT @JHUNursing Beth Sloand reports on the challenges at makeshift ped wards and the collapse of a nur school in #Haiti: http://bit.ly/d0QunH
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