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News Source: The Goshen News
| about 1 year ago
Haiti (AP) — With the search for survivors over, crews will now knock down the ruins of a collapsed Haitian school to protect nearby homes, an official said Tuesday. Removal of the debris also may reveal more bodies of people trapped when the...
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News Source: USA Today
| about 1 year ago
Emergency workers worked to recover the bodies of victims from the rubble of a collapsed school building, but officials said they no longer expect to find anyone alive in the wreckage.
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News Source: Time of India
| about 1 year ago
Rescuers found more victims beneath the rubble of a Haitian school that collapsed two days ago, driving the death toll to 93 as police questioned the school's pastor. Search teams recovered "87 bodies and 150 injured and also located six additional...
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News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
The death toll in the collapse of a three-story school in Haiti has reached at least 88, after rescue workers digging through the rubble for survivors uncovered a room with 21 dead. Officials fear the death toll will continue to rise as many students...
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News Source: United Press International
| about 1 year ago
The owner of a Haitian school that collapsed, killing at least 84 people, has been arrested and jailed, officials said. Clergyman Fortin Augustin was being held at a police station in Port-au-Prince after being arrested late Saturday and charged with...
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News Source: Press TV
| about 1 year ago
Police say that they have arrested Fortin Augustin, the priest who founded the 'College La Promesse,' on charges of involuntary manslaughter. He has been taken to a police station in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. Details surrounding how many...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
At least 92 people have been killed and 150 others injured in the collapse of a church school in the suburbs of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, media reported Saturday. Search for survivors in the remains of the College La Promesse is still...
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News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
Authorities have detained the owner of a Haitian school that collapsed on Friday, killing at least 84 students, sources tell CNN. Fortin Augustin, who owns College La Promesse Evangelique in Petionville, surrendered to authorities on Saturday, said...
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News Source: Macleans
| about 1 year ago
Police arrested the owner of a Haitian school that collapsed on top of students and teachers during school hours, killing at least 88 people and launching a frantic search for survivors amid tons of concrete rubble. Fortin Augustin, the preacher who...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
Police in Haiti have arrested the owner of the school that collapsed Friday, killing at least 88 people, most of them children. A police spokesman says the owner is being charged with involuntary manslaughter. Besides those killed, at least 150...