Mobs protest as workers try to bury victims

HUNGRY, thirsty and increasingly desperate Haitians burned tyres in protest and attacked aid trucks and people carrying scarce food and water as workers struggled to bury thousands of victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne.

More than 1,100 were killed, 1,250 were missing and the toll was still rising, a week after the storm hit.

Hundreds pushed through a wooden barrier to get into Gonaives' sole working clinic for treatment yesterday, but only one doctor was there. Some residents had grown so desperate to get rid of putrefying corpses they were burying them in their gardens.