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GENEVA/PORT AU PRINCE - Thousands of people were flocking Friday to makeshift hospitals run by the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in the quake-devastated Haitian capital Port au Prince in need of immediate medical aid that was unavailable.

WASHINGTON - Haitian President Rene Preval said estimates of the death toll in the devastating earthquake in capital Port-au- Prince could easily be in the tens of thousands, while other officials said more than 100,000 may have perished.

NEW YORK - The death toll among United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti in a massive earthquake could be the largest number ever killed during a mission once formal casualty figures are established.

Port-au-PRINCE/WASHINGTON - Haitian President Rene Preval said Wednesday that thousands may have been killed in the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rattled his country and issued an appeal for aid to his impoverished nation.

GENEVA - The United Nations says the main prison in Haiti's battered capital of Port-au-Prince collapsed in the massive earthquake.
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