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A curfew in Chile’s second city, Concepcion, has been extended until midday (1500 GMT) as troops struggle to contain looting after the earthquake.

by bbc.co.uk

Dozens of people were arrested after looters fought over goods and set fire to a department store.

The authorities have announced they are setting up an air bridge to deliver aid from the capital, Santiago, to Concepcion.

Saturday morning’s 8.8-magnitude quake killed at least 723 people.

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The deteriorating security situation in Concepcion comes despite the influx of thousands of troops to reinforce local police.

Many of the city’s 500,000 inhabitants are short of food and have seen their water and electricity supplies cut off.

Some residents quoted by Reuters news agency said they were organising groups to defend their property.

President Michelle Bachelet, condemning “pillage and criminality”, has sent 7,000 soldiers to the region.

“I want to call to the people’s conscience. We must all work together,” she said.

Meanwhile, rescuers searching the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in the city in which dozens are feared trapped say they have heard signs of life and are attempting to reach survivors.

Coastal destruction

Reports are beginning to emerge of the scale of the devastation in other areas.

AT THE SCENE By Will Grant, BBC News, Curico The vast majority of Curico’s old town has been destroyed and as much as 90% of the mud and wooden buildings in the historic centre have either crumbled or have to be demolished. The town’s mayor said that one of the main problems was the hospital. The pillars have collapsed, he said, and the structure won’t stay up much longer. In the main square, the authorities have set up an emergency radio station. Meanwhile the coastal region near here has been even more badly affected. It’s understood that entire villages have been destroyed either by the earthquake or by a subsequent tsunami.

A BBC team that reached the town of Curico, between Santiago and Concepcion, found widespread destruction.

However, food and water was being distributed and the situation was comparatively calm, our reporters said.

Some coastal towns and villages were hit by giant waves after the earthquake.

In the fishing village of Constitucion, the mayor said the seafront and centre had been “completely destroyed”.

The government admits that its attempts to provide aid swiftly have been hampered by damaged roads and power cuts. The air bridge between Santiago and Concepcion will help the authorities send more than 300 tonnes of aid, including 120 tonnes of food, to the worst affected area of the country.

US help

International aid has begun arriving. Neighbouring Argentina is flying a field hospital over the Andes to Chile and has pledged half a million litres of much-needed drinking water.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva flew to Santiago and offered his nation’s support, while US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due in Chile to see what Washington can do to help the country recover.

Detailed map of quake

After touring the disaster zone, President-elect Sebastian Pinera said the situation was worse than he had expected.

“When we have a catastrophe of this magnitude, when there is no electricity and no water, the population… starts losing the sense of public order,” he said.

About two million Chileans are believed to have been affected by Saturday’s earthquake, the seventh most powerful on record and the worst disaster to befall Chile in 50 years.

The epicentre of the quake was 115km (70 miles) north-east of Concepcion and 325km south-west of the capital Santiago.

About 1.5 million homes in Chile have been damaged. Most of the collapsed buildings were of older design – including many historic structures.

One US risk assessor, Eqecat, has put the cost of repairing the damage at between $15bn and $30bn (?9.8bn – ?19.6bn) or 10-20% of the country’s gross domestic product.

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By Liz Lunn

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5:30 a.m. EDT: Some 2,000 U.S. Marines were to arrive off Haiti’s coast Monday, reinforcing 1,000 U.S. troops already on the ground. Former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy for Haiti, was expected to visit the country and meet with President Rene Preval. Also Monday, U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said he planned to ask the Security Council to temporarily increase the U.N.’s force. There are currently about 7,000 U.N. military peacekeepers and 2,100 international police in Haiti.

5:25 a.m. EDT: The U.S. military responded Sunday to criticism from other Western nations and aid agencies who said poor coordination and a bias toward U.S. military flights among American commanders running Haiti’s airport were leading to delays in aid distribution. “What we set up here would be similar to running a major airport … without any communications, electricity or computers,” Colonel Buck Elton, the U.S. commander at the airport in Port-au-Prince, told reporters by telephone, according to Al Jazeera. The airport lost its control tower during the quake, leaving U.S. personnel to try and coordinate the scores of daily relief flights from a radio uplink on the airport grounds, said Elton.

5:09 a.m. EDT: The United Kingdom said Monday it was tripling the amount of money it was giving to help quake victims in Haiti. International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said it was “now clear that the international community is dealing with an almost unprecedented level of devastation.” The U.K. will now send $32 million to Haiti, increasing its initial commitment of $10 million.

2:30 a.m. EDT: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged quake-battered Haitians Sunday to be patient as they wait for desperately needed aid and medical help. During an emotional visit to the Haiti peacekeeping mission’s devastated headquarters, Ban said he recognized “that many people are frustrated and they are losing their patience.” The U.N. World Food Program plans to start feeding 1 million people in two weeks and 2 million people in one month, the secretary-general said. WFP spokesman David Orr said the agency hoped to reach more than 60,000 Sunday. With an estimated 3 million to 3.5 million people in need of aid, Ban was asked whether it would be enough to avoid riots. “I sincerely hope and appeal to Haitian people to be more patient,” he said. “We do not want to even imagine that kind of situation.” (Source: AP)

From Sunday night:
The entire CBS News team delivered written and video updates of the devastation in Haiti Sunday. On the “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric,” Seth Doane reported on a family living on the street with a 14-month-old baby and the struggle to get needed aid, including clean drinking water.

Manuel Gallegus had the story of the growing number of Haitian orphans and the struggle of adoptive parents in the United States to get their adopted children out of the country before any more harm can come to them.

Randall Pinkston reported from Brooklyn, N.Y. on the powerful mourning and hope at Haitian-American church services in New York and Miami ? and the solidarity expressed at Sunday worship around the world.

CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk, based at the United Nations, wrote about the challenge ahead for U.S. policymakers both in assuring that aid is distributed fairly and without the taint of corruption, and in dealing with a potential flood of refugees.

And on “60 Minutes” Byron Pitts reported on the efforts of the U.S. Army?s 82nd Airborne Division ? including a Haitian-American soldier ? to help rescue, feed and protect the citizens of the earthquake decimated country.

news source : http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/18/world/worldwatch/entry6109448.shtml

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