President Rene Preval said he believes thousands of people were dead from Tuesday afternoon's magnitude-7.0 quake.
"Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed," Preval told the Miami Herald. "There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them."
Haiti Earthquake
Haiti's president believes thousands are dead as a result of a massive earthquake yesterday near Port-Au-Prince, the country's capital:
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