=== ======================================================= November 7, 2008
75 dead in Haitian school collapse
PETION-VILLE, Haiti — About 75 schoolchildren and teachers were killed when a shantytown school packed with hundreds of students collapsed during classes Friday, a government official said.
The three-story La Promesse (The Promise) school in Petion-ville, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, caved in in a heap of cement slabs and twisted steel rods at about 10:00 am (1500 GMT) Friday, trapping scores inside.
A new story had been under construction atop the school when it fell in, also destroying or damaging five homes next to it.
