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Rain soaks Haitians, collapses shacks

A pre-dawn rain shower soaked tens of thousands living in rudimentary shelters in Haiti's capital this morning, an alarming taste of the havoc a sustained tropical downpour could wreak on this earthquake-ravaged country. Rain collapsed cardboard shacks and soaked clothing and bedding at the Marassa 14 camp, where about 2,500 earthquake- displaced people live in a dry riverbed. People scrambled to shore up leaks. Most of the estimated 1.2 million people that the U.N. says are living in temporary camps across Haiti dwell in simple structures made of bed sheets and plastic sheeting. Officials war...

 

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