MANY DEAD

Haiti school collapses

11-08-2008 | AP

Panama Star PETIONVILLE, HAITI. A school building collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least seven people and injuring many more students, some of them pulled, bleeding, from the rubble

More children were believed buried in the rubble and rescuers used bare hands and hand tools to get to them

A reporter saw the bodies of five children and two women, as well as dozens of injured students, some with bleeding heads, pulled from the collapsed building

Matt Marek, head of programs for the American Red Cross in Haiti, said he thought the death toll will go much higher

Roughly 500 students from kindergarten through high school attend the school in the hills above Port-au-Prince, Petionville Mayor Claire Rudie Parent told the AP.