Haiti: a Never-Ending Flow of Bodies

Mass graves consuming 10K dead a day
Haiti: a Never-Ending Flow of Bodies
The arm of one of a person that was killed in Haiti's earthquake sits partially covered at a mass grave in Titanyen , Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010.    (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The Republican Senate victory in Massachusetts seems to have knocked Haiti out of the news headlines, but the tragedy remains devastatingly real. Just ask St. Juste, a 36-year-old bus driver. He wakes up early each day to forage for food and water for his daughter. "I wake up for her," he said. "Life is hard anymore. I've got to get out of Haiti. There is no life in Haiti."

Fox visits the hillsides where where relief workers are burying over 10,000 bodies each day in mass graves: huge piles of bodies, limbs sticking out at all angles, covered with mounds of chalky dirt. With the death toll expecting to reach 200,000, their work will not end any time soon. Those lucky enough to survive the earthquake and its aftermath may be forced to wait nearly 2 weeks for medical care. Though more aid has arrived, food and water shortages still abound. Life in Haiti remains desperate. (More Haiti stories.)

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