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Urgent need for tent cities for Haitian refugees

MIKE MELIA

VIVIAN SEQUERA

Associated Press Writers

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Grieving families are watching workers recover the bodies of loved ones as Haiti’s death roll rises, while aid groups focusing on the living struggle to find tents and sites to erect them for all the people streaming out of Port-au-Prince.

It could take experts weeks to search out sites suitable for enough tent cities to hold earthquake refugees, the International Organization for Migration, an intergovernmental agency, said Sunday.