![]() ![]() ![]() While he waited, Cadeau’s foot began swelling. When Cadeau reached the health facility, he had to wait since the health workers were busy taking care of other injured people. Twenty-four of them, 20 adults and four children, were pulled out of the rubble alive Sunday.Ĭadeau, who managed to get out of the rubble on his own, is not sure how long he laid in the street until help eventually arrived in the form of passersby who rushed him to a health facility. Last week, there were reports of people still trapped alive in the rubble. 23, at least 2,207 people died and 344 people have been reported missing, according to Haiti’s Civil Protection agency. Then when I got outside, I couldn’t even stand on my own.”Ĭadeau is one of at least 12,268 people who were injured during a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti’s southwest region Saturday around 8:30 a.m. “It was really, really bad,” Cadeau said. Unable to walk, Cadeau laid down in the street. He crawled out, with blood spewing from the top of his head and left foot. Moments later, Cadeau woke up under the rubble of his house. On the way out, Cadeau felt something on his head. Cadeau, a teenage boy, immediately got up and ran out of his home in Les Cayes, a city in the Southern department. A fierce vibration jolted Joseph Cadeau from sleep early Saturday.
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