Haiti Relief: Anger Mounts Among Desperate Haitians Over Supplies Stuck at Airport مایوس و نامید ہیٹین پر بھوک سوار۔۔۔ غذا اور پانی کی تلاش میں مایوسی۔۔۔ پانی اور غذائی اشیاء کے حصول کے لئے لڑپڑ تے ہیں۔۔۔ مواصلاتی نظام کی عدم دستیابی کی وجہ سے امدادی سامان ایئر پورٹ پر پڑے ہوئے ہیں۔۔ تاحال چالیس ہرار لاشوں کو دفنایا جاچکا ہے۔۔۔۔ مزید ایک لاکھ لاشیں ملبے تلے موجود ہیں۔۔۔

Tensions are becoming dangerously high on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as increasingly desperate Haitians search for food and water while tons of supplies remain stuck at the country's airport.   -  Kelli Grant from SmartMoney shares guidelines on how to avoid fraudulent sites.  -   "What's going on? We can't even breathe! Who is helping us?" a man cried out today to an ABC News camera crew. Wearing a yellow bandana over his face and surrounded by other young and angry men, he said, "It takes one night to get the U.S. troops here, you know. It takes just a second for the military to get here." 

"We're waiting, we're waiting for three or four days. Just cannot do nothing," another Haitian man said. "The president is staying at the airport while he does nothing for us."

"People have been almost fighting for water," aid worker Fevil Dubien said as he distributed water from a truck in a northern Port-au-Prince neighborhood.  -  ABC News has witnessed looting of damaged buildings in the capital with people walking off with boxes of T-shirts, a cabinet and kitchen appliance along with food and water.  -  Gerard Magliore, whose 22-year-old daughter was found dead in the rubble, spoke to reporters as he took a ring off his dead daughter's finger.

Haiti sees 140,000 dead, fears violence

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Haitian authorities have buried 40,000 bodies and believe another 100,000 people probably died in this week's earthquake, a senior official told Reuters on Friday.   -  Aramick Louis, secretary of state for public safety, also said gangs were starting to take to the streets and the government's main fear was a surge in violence. (Reporting by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by John O'Callaghan) 

GENEVA, Jan 15 (Reuters) - U.N. aid agencies will launch an emergency appeal to raise about $550 million to help survivors of the earthquake in Haiti, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday.  -  Thousands of people injured in Tuesday's massive earthquake in the Caribbean country spent a third night waiting for help, many lying on sidewalks, as their despair turned to anger.  -  "The reality is that getting the quantities of supplies, equipment and expertise that are so desperately needed on the ground inevitably takes time," U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said in a statement.  - 

The world body also said it was looking at converting the national soccer stadium in Port-au-Prince  into a field hospital and at setting up collective kitchens for the homeless. 

More than 25 search and rescue teams are now deployed at schools, hotels, hospitals and larger buildings in the capital, with 13 more on their way, according to the U.N. statement.  -  "There are pockets of survival, we shouldn't give up hope," said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). "They are working around the clock."

No further field hospitals were required but medical teams including surgeons and medicines were badly needed, she said.  -  At least 10 percent of housing in the capital was destroyed, making about 300,000 homeless, but in some areas 50 percent of buildings were destroyed or badly damaged, according to a preliminary assessment by U.N. disaster experts.  -  Under the U.N. appeal, the World Food Programme will seek to provide life-saving food rations to 2 million destitute people for the next month. A longer-term operation is planned up to July 15.  -  "We need high-energy biscuits and ready-to-eat meals as quickly as possible," WFP spokeswoman Emilia Casella said.

After initialling citing reports from partner agencies that its warehouses had been looted, the WFP later said it reached the Port-au-Prince warehouse in question and stocks were safe.  -  "Our warehouse has not been looted. We have 6,000 tonnes of food there and it is being protected by the Brazilian military," Caroline Hurford, a WFP spokeswoman in London, told Reuters.  -   The WFP distributed food to 4,000 people gathered at the prime minister's compound in Port-au-Prince on Thursday following an earlier hand-out in the town of Jacmel.  -  "We are trying to get the food we do have our hands on to people. What we have been able to do so far is a drop in the bucket," Casella said.  -  The WFP was also exploring setting up 200 collective kitchens in Port-au-Prince to feed the homeless, she said.