Two children found unhurt in Haiti school collapse

Survivors Found in Haiti School Collapse
CNN
Port AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Nov. 8) -- Rescue workers in Haiti continued sifting through piles of rubble for signs of life Saturday as night fell over the grim scene where a school collapsed Friday.

Two uninjured children were pulled from the rubble of College La Promesse Evangelique in Petionville on Saturday and reunited with their families, said Rob Drouen, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Their rescue came hours after the death toll from the collapse climbed to 82 with the discovery of 21 bodies in a classroom, President Rene Preval said, according to Clarens Renois of the Haitian Press Network.

However, Drouen said it was difficult to say exactly how many people were inside the school.

"Yesterday, there was a special event at the school, so there were not only pupils but family members and friends who were invited," he said. "It's very difficult to say how many people were in the school."

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China earthquake:Bodies of mother protecting child found in rubble

The poignant moment rescue workers found the bodies of a mother protecting her child beneath the rubble of an earthquake

By Wil Longbottom
Last updated at 12:54 AM on 02nd September 2008

Rescue workers looking for survivors in the rubble in China's southwest region have found the heartbreaking bodies of a woman protecting her child in a collapsed house in Lixi.

The death toll from the earthquake in the Sichuan province has hit 38, two days after the most recent in a series of tremors.

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