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Death toll in Haiti school collapse rises to 30
Replies: 4Last Post Nov. 7, 2008 2:40pm by SHIH TZU
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PETIONVILLE, Haiti - A hillside school where roughly 500 students crowded into several floors collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more. Rescuers used bare hands to pull bleeding students from the wreckage.

More children were believed buried in the rubble of the concrete building, and the death toll was likely to go higher, Yphosiane Vil, an civil protection official, told The Associated Press at the scene.

Neighbors suspected the building was poorly rebuilt after it partially collapsed eight years ago, said Jinny Germain, a French teacher at the school. She said people who lived just downhill abandoned their land out of fear that the building would tumble onto them, and that the school's owner tried to buy up their vacated properties.

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Building inspectors and the lot should be held responsible!



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That's really sad.

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that happened in russia a few months back :/

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Yeh, I heard about that.

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Where did this happen

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