Search for survivors winds down amid battle to resettle homeless

THE search for survivors of Haiti’s killer earthquake started to wind down and Haiti’s government said yesterday it would move some 400,000 homeless to new villages to be built outside the wrecked capital.

The seaport in Port-au-Prince had been repaired enough to reopen for limited aid shipments, and a Dutch naval vessel was unloading pallets of water, juice and shelf-stable milk onto trucks at the pier.

Aid was more plentiful but still inadequate to feed and shelter the masses left homeless and injured by the 7.0 magnitude quake that rocked Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on January 12 and killed as many as 200,000 people.