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Haiti earthquake: day five (17 images)

17 January

Read the latest news on the disaster.

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A woman prays during Mass held outside of the city's main Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Sunday. About one hundred people celebrated Mass Sunday morning on one side of the Cathedral, which was totally destroyed in Tuesday's earthquake. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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People gather among the rubble from the earthquake on a street in Port-au-Prince on Sunday. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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An old man is fed a few nuts from his nephew while lying outside his quake damaged nursing home in Port-au-Prince on Sunday. More than 100 old men and women were living outside the home, that was damaged during Tuesday's earthquake, with no food or care other than an occasional bath from two medical orderlies who remained to help. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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Two old men sit on a bench with a youth outside their nursing home which was damaged by Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince on Sunday. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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An woman sits in the rubble of her nursing home, damaged by Tuesday's earthquake, in Port-au-Prince on Sunday. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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People, one holding up a knife, fight for goods taken from collapsed stores in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Sunday. U.N. peacekeepers patrolling the capital said anger is rising and warned authorities and aid organizations to increase security to guard against looting after Tuesday's earthquake. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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A Haitian police officer points a rifle at a man during a looting spree in the downtown business district on Sunday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

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Looters take what they can from a building that was destroyed during the massive earthquake on Sunday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Jean Gerber, 11, center, grimaces as medic Buddy Davis removes a bandage to check on the boy's wound at a country club used as a fort operating base for the 82nd Airborne Division in Port-au-Prince on Sunday. Relief groups and officials are focused on moving aid flowing into Haiti to survivors of the powerful earthquake that hit the country on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Looters fight for goods taken from collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince on Sunday. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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Rescue workers carry Jens Christensen, from Denmark, a United Nations worker who was just pulled from the collapsed United Nations headquarters building, to a temporary clinic in Port-au- Prince on Sunday. Workers have been trapped in the building since Tuesday's deadly earthquake which killed thousands and left the city in ruins. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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Men carrying a stolen pot past a burning body in Port-au-Prince on Sunday. Five days after Haiti was rocked by a major earthquake, hundreds of residents of the capital looted downtown damaged stores. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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Looters fight for a bag of materials in Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. The situation in Haiti is worsened by occasional looting in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake on Jan. 12. (AP Photo/Xinhua, David de la Paz)

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Survivors of Tuesday's earthquake extend their arms as U.S. troops with the 82nd Airborne Division distribute water in Port-au-Prince on Sunday. The troops gave out over 9,000 bottles of water and 2,000 meals Sunday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Haitian girls carry food and household goods through the rubble near the National Cathedral on Sunday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

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A mob of Haitians reach out as goods are thrown from a nearby shop in the downtown business district on Sunday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Sporadic looting happened today in the aftermath of the historic earthquake that devastated the capital, prompting Haitian police to break up the crowd with gunfire which killed at least one man. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

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An old woman whispers a prayer while sitting outside her quake damaged home in Port-au- Prince on Sunday. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

 

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