PORT-AU-PRINCE — Another three Dutch citizens are still missing in Haiti, all three are either Antilleans or Arubans. In any case, amongst those are still the Curaçao citizens Siegfried Francisco, director of the Directorate Aviation, and Angelo Isenia, safety inspector of aforementioned directorate.
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The third person is in all probability the 13-year old girl Merlony Jean-Raymond of Aruba.
One Antillean, who had still been on the list yesterday, has reported himself in the meantime. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this today. The Ministry could not say whether the other missing person was Antillean or Aruban, as they only look for people with a Dutch passport.
Orphans
The collection of the Haitian orphans by the Curaçao airline company Insel Air is delayed. It is now the intention that the aircraft will fly to Haiti this evening by eight o’clock to collect the children and fly them to Curaçao. It is still unclear whether the children will immediately fly on to the Netherlands with the ArkeFly-aircraft, which the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs had chartered for this purpose and has been standing at Hato airport since Monday.
Two missing Dutch families who had stayed in hotel Villa Therese in a suburb of Port-au-Prince during the earthquake, have passed away. An Israeli identification team had confirmed the identity of the Dutch citizens late yesterday evening. The team had received the information necessary for identification, such as dental data of the missing couples, from the Dutch National Team Forensic Tracing (LTFO). The mortal remains of the couples and the children will be transported to the Netherlands as soon as possible.
The total number of casualties due to last week’s earthquake has increased to 75.000. The government of the Caribbean country announced this on Tuesday. A quarter of a million people have been injured and one million Haitians are homeless.
A Haitian State-Secretary had declared last Sunday, that 70.000 people had been buried in mass graves. However, the authorities fear that the number of casualties will exceed the 200.000.
Miracles
Yet, wonders will never cease, whatever next? Rescue workers had saved an elderly female from the collapsed cathedral of Port-au-Prince yesterday. Anna Zizi, who is 69 or 70 years of age according to her son, had been singing when rescue workers removed her from the rubble, one week after the devastating earthquake. According to son Maxime Janvier, the family Zizi had prayed a lot for the rescue.
Yet, a second successful rescue operation had taken place last night. After nine hours, American, French and Haitian rescue workers had succeeded in extricating the 25-year old Hoteline Losana from her apartment. "She is conscious and doing well", announced a spokesperson of the French organization Rescue-workers without Borders.
Yet, wonders will never cease, whatever next? Rescue workers had saved an elderly female from the collapsed cathedral of Port-au-Prince yesterday. Anna Zizi, who is 69 or 70 years of age according to her son, had been singing when rescue workers removed her from the rubble, one week after the devastating earthquake. According to son Maxime Janvier, the family Zizi had prayed a lot for the rescue.Yet, a second successful rescue operation had taken place last night. After nine hours, American, French and Haitian rescue workers had succeeded in extricating the 25-year old Hoteline Losana from her apartment. "She is conscious and doing well", announced a spokesperson of the French organization Rescue-workers without Borders.
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