Another school collapses in Haiti

By Melissa Bryant
Reporter-SKNVibes.com

~~Adz:Right~~ PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – THE Grace Divine School in Central Port-au-Prince partly collapsed yesterday (Nov. 12), leaving seven people injured but no fatality.

According to Caribbean Net News, more than 100 students were in the school’s playground when part of the concrete ceiling of the two-storey building crashed down and the walls partly caved in.

An on-scene witness reported that chunks of the school’s walls were scattered on the ground, its concrete roof was sagging and there were clear cracks in the remaining walls.

Rescuers, along with the foreign teams in the country who went to help with the earlier school collapse, arrived quickly at the scene to help clear the debris.

The cause of the collapse was not immediately clear, but it comes in the wake of the disaster at the La Promesse School in Petion-ville, a hillside shantytown outside Port-au-Prince, last Friday (Nov. 7).

The three-story school was completely destroyed when it caved in during morning classes, killing at least 93 and leaving 150 injured.

Rescuers said Tuesday that there was little chance there would be any more survivors pulled from the wreckage, and government health officials were proceeding with operations to disinfect the site to protect against disease.