Snapshot: Haiti Earthquake

U.S. troops are protecting aid handouts and the United Nations is seeking extra peacekeepers to bolster security in earthquake-shattered Haiti as marauding looters empty wrecked shops and tens of thousands of survivors wait desperately for food and medical care after Tuesday's quake which killed as many as 200,000 people.

NEWS

* U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asks the Security Council to send an additional 1,500 police and 2,000 troops to join 9,000 U.N. peacekeepers already in Haiti.

* Some 2,200 U.S. Marines with heavy earth-moving equipment, medical aid and helicopters were arriving on Monday to join some 5,000 troops already in the region.

* Hundreds of scavengers and looters swarm over wrecked stores in downtown Port-au-Prince, seizing goods and fighting among themselves, but some signs of normality returned as street vendors emerged with fruit and vegetables for sale.

* Former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush joined forces to exhort Americans to help people in Haiti, where logistical logjams are holding up distribution of aid.

* U.N. agency WHO is helping to coordinate treatment of the injured and surveillance of infectious disease outbreaks which are feared. Haiti's population was already reeling from widespread malnutrition, infectious diseases including high rates of HIV/AIDS, and erratic medical care.

* European Union offers more than 400 million euros ($575.6 million) in emergency and longer-term assistance, the bloc says. EU also calls for an international conference to improve coordination and prevent a "second-wave disaster."

* Canada will host a meeting of foreign ministers on Haiti on January 25 in Montreal.

* Senegal says it and other African nations should offer earthquake victims the chance to resettle in the continent, possibly in a newly created state of their own.

* U.S. military hopes to reopen Port-au-Prince's shattered seaport in two or three days.

QUOTES

"We cannot just cure the wounds of the earthquake, we must develop the economy, agriculture, education, health, and reinforce the democratic institutions," Haitian President Rene Preval at a donors' conference in Dominican Republic.

"We do not have the capacity to fix this situation. Haiti needs help ... the Americans are welcome here. But where are they? We need them here on the street with us." -- policeman Dorsainvil Robenson, as he chased looters.

"The heartbreaking scenes I saw yesterday compel us to act swiftly and generously today and over the longer term." - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who visited Haiti on Sunday.

"They say the government is not fast, but we are doing our best. All the ministries have fallen down. Everything in Haiti is broken." -- Haitian Information Minister Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue.

"The distribution is totally disorganized. They are not identifying the people who need the water. The sick and the old have no chance." -- resident Estime Pierre Deny.