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HAITI HIT BY POWERFUL QUAKE

Nation News "PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hundreds, maybe even thousands are feared dead in Haiti after a powerful earthquake, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale hit the country just before 6 p.m. (Barbados time) on Tuesday.

Across the country, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, residents desperately fight against time to try to rescue those trapped in the rubble, all the while being shaken by powerful aftershocks.

CNN reports that as many as 24 aftershocks have hit the country, some as strong as 5.9.

In reports filtering out of the country, whose telecommunications systems have been severely damaged by the quake, witnesses speak of of hearing screams for help from those trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings."

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