
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and at least 3m more left in need of international aid after Haiti suffered its worst earthquake in 200 years today.
The epicentre of the 7.0 magnitude quake was only 10 miles from Port-au-Prince, which has a population of about 1m, and the UN peacekeeping headquarters in the capital and parts of the presidential palace, national assembly and at least one hospital were destroyed.
International disaaster relief teams started arriving in Haiti as the country’s president said the huge earthquake that struck his impoverished Caribbean country of 9m people had overwhelmed its fragile infrastructure.
-FT.com

