A mob of men and children watch as the bloodied corpse of a suspected thief is brutally beaten by a man with a stick. The victim is naked and bound at his hands and feet. It is broad daylight in the devastated capital city of Haiti. These are the latest in a series of chilling images from the country as anarchy threatens to destabilise the relief effort following Tuesday’s earthquake.
Fears are growing for the continued safety of the nation with violence rife as scavengers and looters swarm over the wrecks of shops, carrying off anything they can find. Robbers prey on survivors struggling without supplies in makeshift camps on roadsides littered with debris and decomposing bodies.
Men armed with machetes and other weapons walk brazenly through the capital city while others stalk the streets holding shotguns. Tensions have been rising among those awaiting international help and hunting for missing relatives as aid begins to trickle in four days after an earthquake that authorities say killed 200,000 people.
Daily Mail
Vocabulary
mob of sg – valaminek a tömege
corpse – holttest, tetem
chilling – dermeszt?
scavenger – hullaev?, hullarabló
looter – fosztogató
to swarm – eláraszt, elözönlik
brazenly – vakmer?en, szenvtelenül
to stalk – peckesen lépked
to trickle – lassan becsorog
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