Dazed and injured Haitians sat on darkened streets pleading for help on Wednesday and untold numbers were trapped in tonnes of rubble brought down by the strongest earthquake to hit this poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years.
The extent of destruction from Tuesday afternoon’s 7.0-magnitude tremor was far from clear — and estimating the number of casualties was impossible, save for the dead lying among thousands of collapsed buildings in Haiti’s capital.
