Angry Haitians block roads with corpses: witness

Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:31pm EST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Angry Haitians set up roadblocks with corpses in Port-au-Prince to protest at the delay in emergency aid reaching them after a devastating earthquake, an eyewitness said,

World | Natural Disasters

Shaul Schwarz, a photographer for TIME magazine, said he saw at least two downtown roadblocks formed with bodies of earthquake victims and rocks.

"They are starting to block the roads with bodies, it's getting ugly out there, people are fed up with getting no help," he told Reuters.

(Reporting by Andrew Cawthorne)

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Comment by Citizen X74 on January 15, 2010 at 8:40pm
i have just one question, how will blocking the roads help with getting supplies to them?

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