Hunger and violence grip Port-au-Prince

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Thousands of Haiti's quake victims are struggling to board rickety wooden buses and open trucks to flee the hunger and violence ravaging the shattered capital.

Looters were rampaging through part of downtown Port-au-Prince even as the Security Council voted to add 2,000 troops to the 7,000 military peacekeepers already in the country.

Police Chief Mario Andersol said that he can muster only 2,000 officers in the capital, down from 4,500 before the quake, and they "are not trained to deal with this kind of situation."