Haiti: Josh Shahryar's News LiveBlog (16-17 January)

0632 GMT

More cries for help at Hotel Montana now. Twitter users from Haiti are repeatedly calling for rescuers to divert more attention to this establishment. According to them, they have been in touch with some people who are still trapped under the rubble.

Help needed!

0622 GMT

Desperate cries for help from the Caribbean Supermarket in the Haitian capital through cell phones. Many people on Twitter and on alternative media continue to try and get rescuers attention to this part of town where many people might still be trapped and alive.

Haiti: Josh Shahryar’s Humanitarian LiveBlog (16-17 January)

One twitterer reports:

msymharris

DO NOT LEAVE CARRIBEAN SUPERMARKET people stuck under rubble! they texting Aldopho Prato by freezers, CARRIBEAN MARKET



0551 GMT

The BBC reports:

Senegal’s president says he will offer free land and “repatriation” to people affected by the earthquake in Haiti. “The president is offering voluntary repatriation to any Haitian that wants to return to their origin,” said Mr Wade’s spokesman, Mamadou Bemba Ndiaye.

The spokesman emphasised that if a region was given, it would be in a fertile part of the country rather than in its parched deserts, the Associated Press news agency reported.

(Let’s try and help Haitians in Haiti – I think.)

0534 GMT

More reports of gunshots being heard in Port-au-Prince:

Twitter user fredodupoux reports:

exchanging gun shots can still be heard and most of the people are sleeping outside.

0518 GMT

The Sacramento Bee has released new aerial images of the Haitian capital. Here are some of them:







12:00 PM (Haitian Time)

A video from yesterday and last night on CNN. (The images are VERY VERY disturbing. Please DO NOT watch and DO NOT pass it along without a VERY stern warning.)

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