UN mission head missing in Haiti

UN. January 13. KAZINFORM The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti is missing and may be lying under the rubble of the organization's Port-au-Prince headquarters after a powerful quake hit the island; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.

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Two earthquakes measuring 7 and 5.9 on the Richter scale hit Haiti on Tuesday, with hundreds feared dead.

"We haven't heard from Mr. [Hedi] Annabi. We just know that he was in the [headquarters] building, as were many others," under-secretary-general for peacekeeping operations Alain Le Roy said on Tuesday; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti.

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