Haitian police were holding the owner of a school that collapsed, killing at least 88 people and sparking a desperate search for survivors trapped in tons of rubble.
Fortin Augustin, the preacher who owns and built College La Promesse in suburban Port-au-Prince, was arrested late Saturday and charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Augustin was being held at a police station in Haiti's capital, while a US rescue crew searched overnight for survivors of Friday's collapse of the three-storey building, which normally holds 500 students and teachers.
In a rare moment of joy in a grim task, Haitian rescuers pulled four children alive from the rubble and cradled them in their arms Saturday as they ran toward ambulances.
Fairfax County firefighter said:
" It's mainly difficult because of that large slab hanging over our heads, so we have to be very careful with what we do because if we create vibrations, that large slab is going to fall down on anybody that's working there and no matter who it is we don't want that to happen."
In the two days of rescues, parents clutched pictures of their children as they watched rescue workers sidestep human limbs sticking out from the rubble.
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