Update: Rescue at school called off (90 dead, 150 injured).

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A school filled with approximately 500 - 700 teachers and students (including kindergartners) collapsed on Friday in Haiti. The death toll stands at 90 so far, but the number is bound to increase. Four were pulled alive from the rubble, giving hope that more might have survived. *4 children rescued from rubble of Haiti school By JONATHAN M. KATZ – 38 minutes ago PETIONVILLE, Haiti (AP) — Rescuers pulled four children alive Saturday from the rubble of a three-story Haitian school that collapsed on classrooms filled with students and teachers, killing at least 88 people. Emergency workers cradled the dazed children in their arms and rushed them to ambulances, U.N. police spokesman Andre Leclerc said. The extent of the injuries to the two girls, ages 3 and 5, and two boys, a 7-year-old and a teenager, was not known, Leclerc said. But he added the 3-year-old had a cut on her head and seemed to be OK. *http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_10938164

Death toll passes 90 in Haiti school collapse (Updates death toll, adds arrest of owner) By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The death toll in the collapse of a ramshackle school in Haiti rose above 90 on Saturday after rescue workers uncovered a room full of dead, many of them children, officials said. Civil protection service head Alta Jean-Baptiste said there were 84 people confirmed dead and 150 injured as of noon. Another civil protection official, Michel Joseph Jr., said he had seen eight more bodies, bringing the count to 92. "We haven't been able to get them out yet," Joseph said as rescue workers arrived from the United States and the French Caribbean island of Martinique to help the ill-equipped and impoverished country and U.N. peacekeepers posted there search for survivors. Officials said 700 children were enrolled at the three-story La Promesse school, but it was not known how many were in the building when it caved in on Friday while class was in session.

http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSN08329116._CH_.2400 sorry, the link above keeps going to the older version of the article here is one that will get you to the newer version described above: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=u4X&q=haitischool90&btnG=Search picture caption: Residents look on as rescue workers search for victims at the 'La Promesse' school after it collapsed in Petionville, Haiti, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008. The school, where roughly 500 students crowded into several floors, collapsed Friday during classes killing at least 75 people and injuring many more. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Latest update: More survivors under collapsed Haiti school unlikely: rescuers 94 dead, 150 wounded in Friday tragedy Search crews in Haiti say it is unlikely they will find any more survivors amid the rubble of a collapsed school on the outskirts of capital Port-au-Prince, as their rescue efforts on Monday increasingly resembled a recovery mission. Teams of rescuers from the United States, France and Haiti used sonar, cameras and dogs in an effort to find more victims three days after the concrete building suddenly collapsed during a children's party, killing at least 94 students and adults and severely injuring 150 more. On Monday, they pulled out several bodies caked in dust from the concrete rubble where College La Promesse in Petionville once stood. There have been no indications of survivors since four children were pulled from the wreckage Saturday morning, said Daniel Vigee, head of a Martinique-based French rescue team. The chance of more survivors was remote, said U.S. firefighter Michael Istvan, who is in charge of a rescue team at the scene. But he added the death toll won't likely go much higher. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/11/10/haiti-school.html

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