MSNBC Just reported the UN Chief in Haiti was killed.

[berni_mccoy]

Many of the UN staff there was killed as well, and they noted the Haitian Bishop's death was reported earlier.

[laughingliberal]

1. This is such a horror. Godspeed and RIP to the victims.

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[rabs]

2. Brazil reporting at least 17 Brazilians were killed

Including Zilda Arns, 75, founder and director of pastoral organization who was in Port-au-Prince on a humanitarian mission to help Haitian children.

President Preval has confirmed U.N. chief Heidi Annavi, a Tunisian, is among the dead.

Brazilian military planes enroute with humanitarian aid at this moment. Fifteen million U.S. dollars already earmarked for aid efforts.

Video (short, two minutes, in English) is of rescue effort at the U.N. headquarters.


http://jbonline.terra.com.br/pextra/2010/01/13/e130114172.asp


Agência Brasil


JB Online


PORTO PRÍNCIPE - Segundo o presidente do Haiti, Rene Preval, o tunisiano Heidi Annavi, chefe da missão das Nações Unidas (ONU) para estabilização do Haiti (Minustah) foi encontrado morto nos escombros do prédio da ONU em Porto Príncipe.