Red Cross: Up to 3 million affected by Haiti quake

China Daily | Updated: 2010-01-14 07:53

A rescue team (above) carries an injured survivor to the hospital in Port-au-Prince yesterday as search crews dug the living and the dead from the rubble. Workers of the Action Medeor prepare parcels with emergency health kits in Toenisvorst, Germany, to ship to Haiti. AP

GENEVA: Haiti's devastating earthquake has left an estimated 3 million people in need of emergency aid, a Red Cross official said yesterday, as aid groups and governments scrambled to send tons of disaster relief to the impoverished Caribbean nation.