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-- Posted by scalywag66 at 2:20 pm on Nov. 7, 2008


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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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_school_collapse" target="_top">http://http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_school_collapse



Building inspectors and the lot should be held responsible!



-- Posted by SmartWater at 2:22 pm on Nov. 7, 2008

That's really sad.


-- Posted by Natsy at 2:28 pm on Nov. 7, 2008

that happened in russia a few months back :/


-- Posted by jamesish at 2:28 pm on Nov. 7, 2008

Yeh, I heard about that.


-- Posted by SHIH TZU at 2:40 pm on Nov. 7, 2008

Where did this happen


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