UN peacekeepers and US troops have been helping keep order around aid deliveries and clinics in the stricken city, which seemed relatively calm yesterday, even if looters continued to pillage pockets of downtown.

Mass graves were being dug on a hillside north of Haiti's capital today using earth-movers to bury 10,000 earthquake victims as relief workers warned the death toll could increase.

A frightening new aftershock in Haiti forced more earthquake survivors on to the capital’s streets and sent others fleeing to the countryside, where aid was only beginning to reach wrecked towns.