Crews Search for Survivors in Haiti School Collapse

Rescue workers continued to search for survivors Saturday after a school collapse killed at least 50 children in Petionville near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.

Clarens Renois, a journalist with the Haiti Press Network, said nearly 200 children remained trapped under rubble as of midnight Friday.

As many as 700 children were inside when the building collapsed around 10 a.m. ET Friday, officials said. Some were in class and others were in a playground, Haitian media reported.

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PICTURED: Haitians help victims of the College Promesse Evangelique school that collapsed on November 7, 2008 in Petion-ville, Haiti. More than a dozen people were killed when the school in the Port-au-Prince suburb with 700 pupils collapsed Friday, a police spokesman said. The first floor of the three-storey building collapsed and ‘dragged down the rest of the building as the pupils were in class,’ said one distraught woman who had hurried to the school to find her child.

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