Photo Gallery Surviving the Aftermath
Magalie Rigaud, an aid worker for German Catholic relief agency Caritas, was trapped in the rubble of a supermarket for eight hours after last Tuesday's earthquake. She was determined to survive. "If you want to die, die quietly, but don't demoralize us," she told a fellow victim who was panicking. They were rescued by three youths after knocking against the rubble and shining a flashlight through the cracks.
Six days have passed since the earthquake devastated this Caribbean island nation and the world's media are full of stories about the slow progress of aid. It's not the whole truth. The aid workers are starting to find their feet and the survivors are gradually starting the clean-up operation. But corpses are still lying in the streets or next to hospitals. Here, looters can be seen fighting for goods from a destroyed store in the center of Port-au-Prince on Sunday.
Haitian youths took cover as private security guards opened fire to stop looters on Sunday.
Desperate survivors reach out as goods are thrown from a store in Port-au-Prince on Sunday.
Police opened fire to disperse looters on Sunday. At least one man was killed.
Here, a police officer can be seen firing at looters on Boulevard Jean Jacques Dessaline in Port-au-Prince.
A Haitian police officer points a rifle at a man during a looting spree in the business district of Port-au-Prince on Sunday. There's growing tension in the city as aid shipments have been slow to reach survivors.
A mobile basic health station of the German Red Cross has arrived in Port-au-Prince.
The port city of Jacmel in southern Haiti was more than 50 percent destroyed by the earthquake.
