UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The casualty numbers for United Nations personnel in Haiti keep mounting.
Officials now say 36 have been killed in the massive earthquake, nearly 200 are still missing and eight have been rescued from the rubble of collapsed buildings.
A spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Port-au-Prince says the dead include 19 peacekeepers, four international police officers and 13 civilians. David Wimhurst said about 160 U.N. national and international staffers are unaccounted for along with 18 police and 10 military personnel.
Seven people were rescued from the collapsed headquarters building and one from a nearby U.N. office.
Wimhurst says a security guard who was pulled from the headquarters was "unscathed."
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Warren Levinson, AP correspondent
UN workers try to rescue colleagues and Haitian civilians caught in Tuesday's earthquake. AP correspondent Warren Levinson reports.
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Alain LeRoy (ah-LEHN' luh-WAH'), UN chief of peacekeeping
UN chief of peacekeeping Alain LeRoy says UN recovery operations are taking place at headquarters and elsewhere around Haiti.
