UN will hand out 6,000 tons of food in Haiti immediately, calls reports of looting overblown

[StarfarerBill]

By Associated Press/CBC

GENEVA - Some 6,000 tons of food aid will be distributed shortly in Haiti, a U.N. spokeswoman said Friday, adding that reports that U.N. warehouses in Haiti had been looted were overblown.

Officials checked four U.N. food agency warehouses in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Friday after receiving reports from local partners of looting, said Emilia Casella, a World Food Program spokeswoman.

"The food is there," Casella told The Associated Press. "They are also working on getting a peacekeeper contingent to secure the locations."

Casella said 6,000 tons of food stored were found in a damaged warehouse near the capital's Cite Soleil slum, and the biscuits, ready-to-eat meals and other supplies would be handed out shortly. That is 40 per cent of the U.N.'s pre-quake food stocks of 15,000 tons in Haiti.

There are six other U.N. warehouses outside the capital, and there were no reports of looting at those, Casella said.

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[rocktivity]

1. Well, I did think it was odd

that the food could not get out of the warehouse to the people, but people could get into the warehouse to the food?

:crazy:
rocktivity

[Warpy]

2. Looting = desperate people taking what they need to survive

I sincerely doubt boom boxes and TV sets are particularly popular items right now since there is no place to store them and no way to use them.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. No kidding. I guess it's all a matter of perception.