On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force

Pierre Yves Jovin, 56, Morgue Manager, Central hospital, Port Au Prince. Pierre has worked at the morgue for 27 years. He is the manager in charge. He is standing in front of the cold stores each of which hold about 60 bodies. Relatives are still coming to see if they can identify their loved ones such is the need to know if their families are just missing or dead. People are searching high and low for loved ones even knowing that the chances of finding them dead or alive must be miniscule when so many have been cleared into mass graves or burnt where they lay. "After the earthquake, all the bodies were piled outside this morgue. There was a huge pile of two to three thousand and inside there were bodies piled up to the ceiling. Every time the earth trembled, the after-shocks caused the bodies to move and I could smell the dead"

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Pierre Yves Jovin, 56, Morgue Manager, Central hospital, Port Au Prince. Pierre has worked at the morgue for 27 years. He is the manager in charge. He is standing in front of the cold stores each of which hold about 60 bodies. Relatives are still coming to see if they can identify their loved ones such is the need to know if their families are just missing or dead. People are searching high and low for loved ones even knowing that the chances of finding them dead or alive must be miniscule when so many have been cleared into mass graves or burnt where they lay. "After the earthquake, all the bodies were piled outside this morgue. There was a huge pile of two to three thousand and inside there were bodies piled up to the ceiling. Every time the earth trembled, the after-shocks caused the bodies to move and I could smell the dead"