Haiti earthquake: the lost families
Updated on 19 January 2010
Channel 4 News correspondent Sarah Smith meets a man still searching for his children in the rubble of his collapsed house, as daily life in Haiti becomes unimaginably hard.
Warning: the accompanying footage contains images which some people may find distressing.
For most people in Port-au-Prince the sheer challenge of daily life is now difficult to imagine, with 200,000 people feared dead.
For one resident, Edouard Bazile, that reality is even more unimaginable. His house collapsed in the 7.0 magnitude earthquake, burying his entire family.
He has been speaking to Channel 4 News correspondent Sarah Smith about what happened and how he is now living with overwhelming grief.
He described how he managed to pull his wife's body from the rubble. He then spoke to her in her dying moments.
He said: "I looked at her body, her torso was twisted. I said 'You know I love you, right?'
"She said: 'Yeah I know, but get me out please'."
For more Channel 4 News coverage of the Haiti earthquake
- Haiti search: from rescue to recovery
- Haiti survivors pulled from the rubble
- Haiti’s aid: caught in a bottleneck
- Haiti: how you can help
- Blog: Haiti's long, long haul
He fears his two children, Anniha and Edwin, must also have died in the 7.0 magnitude earthquake but he has yet to locate their bodies.
He said: "They are still in the rubble here. I miss my kids dearly."
