There are mounting security concerns in Haiti’s earthquake-hit capital as distribution problems continue to hamper getting aid to survivors.
BBC News website readers have been describing how the earthquake has affected them.
Haiti earthquake: Aid workers’ diaries
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****Frederic Dupoux, photographer, Port-au-Prince ****
I was in the mountains, in a suburb of Port-au-Prince when the earthquake happened. Once I realised what the magnitude is, I went straight down to the city. The further I got, the worst things got. It was terrifying.
Right now everyone is waiting for help, looking for fuel, food and water. We did not expect such a tragedy, so nobody has got any supplies.
There are no shops open and people don’t know what to do. The security situation is becoming a problem too. Streets can get very violent and you have to be careful.
I haven’t witnessed any violence, but I have seen people looting houses and shops in their struggle to find food.
“I would like to say to people around world: please bring help, bring hands, send food and water”
Here’s an example to illustrate the situation - my uncle has a water distribution business. Right now he is distributing the water for free, but he can’t do that on his own, he has a military escort.
Everybody is looking for food and water. Aid is coming through, but you don’t see it everywhere, it’s not on a big scale. People are asking for help and they are wondering why so little has arrived.
Yesterday I witnessed something that shows how desperate people are. A rescue team asked a crowd of people to guide them towards places where people might be trapped. The crowd insisted that they are the ones who needed the help.
I spend my days out in the streets, taking photographs of the destruction and people’s struggle to survive. Everybody is like me - out in the streets, not by choice, but because there’s no place to go.
People are camping outside, setting up tents on every little green they can find.
I would like to say to people around world: please bring help, send food and water.
The whole city is destroyed and has to be rebuilt. Everything is broken. It’s really difficult to describe. We need to know what to do after that and right now we don’t even know what tomorrow will be like.
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