Haiti earthquake: Scenes of death, destruction

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Haiti earthquake: Scenes of death, destruction

Photos: Haiti earthquake. Death, destruction in Port-au-Prince.

Two rescue workers rest in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday.

A victim is carried into the Hospital Universitaire de la Paix in Port-au-Prince.

A women cries as workers dig through the rubble in search of her nephew, whose cries could be heard in a collapsed building in downtown Port-au-Prince.

Local residents line up for relief supplies at a United Nations food distribution point in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday. Signs of tension and urgency were growing in Haiti on Thursday, two days after an earthquake reduced much of the capital to rubble.

In a photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma members load supplies onto a boat to take to Port-au-Prince for a make-shift clinic.

Residents try to recover possessions from their flattened homes.

Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide looks on with his wife, Mildred Aristide, during a press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday. Exiled former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said Friday he was ready to return to his quake-devastated country, but it was not clear when or how.

A French citizen evacuated from Haiti arrives with his child at Orly airport in Paris. Fifty-four French citizens were evacuated from Port-au-Prince to the French Caribbean island of La Martinique before embarking for France.

A woman in Port-au-Prince looks on as bodies are loaded onto a dumptruck for transportation to a mass grave outside the city on Thursday.

A woman in Port-au-Prince weeps as she watches bodies being loaded onto a dumptruck for transportation to a mass grave outside the city.

In the Petionville neighborhood, men look for lost family in the rubble of their home.

A man searches for relatives among the bodies left in the courtyard of a hospital in Port-au-Prince.

Lionel Michaud mourns the death of his wife, Lormeny Nathalie, and child Christian Michaud, in the courtyard of a morgue where hundreds of bodies have been collected.

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Two rescue workers rest in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday.

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