United Nations casualties: Hotel Christopher, which served as the UN headquarters, after the earthquake The UN headquarters hosting the stabilization mission for Haiti (MINUSTAH), at the Christopher Hotel in Port-au-Prince, suffered a devastating collapse, concentrating early UN rescue efforts on their own personnel. Most of MINUSTAHs 9,000 troops and police were located elsewhere.[94] Many U.N. personnel trapped in the building died, including mission head Hédi Annabi and deputy head of the UN mission in Haiti, Luiz Carlos da Costa UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has confirmed that 83 UN staff members had died and 32 remained missing. Argentina: Gustavo Ariel Gómez, 33, a gendarme from Buenos Aires, was fatally wounded in the earthquake. Days after the quake he died in a hospital in Jimaní in the Dominican Republic. Gómez was one of the 600-member Argentine peacekeeping force, which operated an infantry battalion, a field hospital and 2 helicopters. Benin: Three Beninese were confirmed to have died, including police officers Kura Batipi and Okoro Afiss and Constable S. Imorou Salifou. Brazil: Brazil had the largest contingent of UN personnel in Haiti, totaling more than 1,200. In addition to the death of deputy head of the UN mission in Haiti, Luiz Carlos da Costa, eighteen Brazilian military personnel were killed and 25 were injured. A number of the dead were officers, including Coronel Emílio Carlos Torres dos Santos, Coronel João Eliseu Souza Zanin, Lieutenant-Coronel Marcus Vinicius Macedo Cysneiros, Major Francisco Adolfo Vianna Martins Filho, Major Márcio Guimarães Martins, Lieutenant Bruno Ribeiro Mário, and Sub-Lieutenant Raniel Batista de Camargos. Enlisted deaths included Private Antônio José Anacleto, Corporal Arí Dirceu Fernandes Júnior, Sergent Davi Ramos de Lima, Corporal Douglas Pedrotti Neckel, Private Felipe Gonçalves Julio, Private Kleber da Silva Santos, Second Sargent Leonardo de Castro Carvalho, Private Rodrigo Augusto da Silva, Third Sargent Rodrigo de Souza Lima, Private Tiago Anaya Detimermani, Corporal Washington Luis de Souza Seraphin. Canada:Two Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers of the international training cadre have been confirmed dead, Supt. Doug Coates, the acting commissioner of MINUSTAH, and Sgt. Mark Gallagher are confirmed to have been killed. Canada has an 82-member peacekeeping police force in Haiti.[108][109] All 42 members of the SPVM, 23 members of the SQ and the five members of the Canadian Forces deployed to Haiti with MINUSTAH have been accounted for, as safe. Guillaume Siemienski and Hélène Rivard of the Canadian International Development Agency were also killed. Siemienski was working as a Political Affairs Officer for the UN.[113] Other casualties include Renée Carrier,[114] Alexandra Duguay,[114] and Philippe Rouzier. Rouzier was a former professor at Université Laval who was working with the UN as an economist. Chad: One Chadian police officer was killed as a result of the quake. Chile: The United Nations confirmed the death of Human Rights Officer Andrea Loi. Peoples Republic of China: Eight Chinese police officers were killed when they were in the UN headquarters as the earthquake struck, which destroyed the building and trapped their bodies for days afterwards. A Chinese rescue team could only recover the bodies four days after the earthquake struck, due to the difficulties that the heavy debris was causing. Four of the eight were sent by the Ministry of Public Security, while the other four were peacekeepers who were stationed with 138 other Chinese peacekeepers. The ministry officials who died were: Zhu Xiaoping, director of the ministrys equipment and finance department; Guo Baoshan, deputy director of the ministrys international cooperation department; Wang Shulin and Li Xiaoming, both researchers at the ministry. The four peacekeepers who died were: Zhao Huayu, Li Qin, Zhong Jianqin, and He Zhihong.[119] It is believed that the eight officers were meeting with Hédi Annabi, whose body was also discovered by the Chinese rescue team, at the time of the earthquake. Congo: The United Nations confirmed the death of Audit Assistant Watanga Lwango France: The United Nations confirmed the deaths of Chief Electoral Assistance Section Marc Plum and personal assistant to the principal deputy special representative of the Secretary General Simone Rita Trudo. Guatemala: The United Nations confirmed the death of secretary Mirna Patricia Rodas Arreola Guatemala. Haiti: The United Nations confirmed the death of Haitian nationals Hebert Moise (driver) and Mesonne Antoine (security guard) India: The United Nations confirmed the death of IT Technician/International Contractor Satnam Singh, who had immigrated to Canada. Ireland: The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed on 19 January 2010 that the body of 44-year-old father of three Andrew Grene had been recovered from the wreckage of Haitis destroyed UN building. Andrew Grene, who held dual citizenship in United States and Ireland, was the son of noted University of Chicago professor of classics David Grene and his twin brother Gregory Grene is a member of the music band The Prodigals. Italy: The United Nations confirmed the death of Political Affairs Officer Guido Galli. Jordan: Three Jordanian police officers were killed and 21 soldiers and policemen were injured. Among the Jordanian casualties were majors Atta Issa Hussein and Ashraf Ali Jayoussi and corporal Raed Faraj Kal-Khawaldeh. Kenya: Nivah Odwori was a citizen of Kenya and a resident of the state of New Jersey in the United States. She was one of seven Kenyan United Nations Volunteers in Haiti offering humanitarian assistance to families in Port-au-Prince and working on a program to develop the countrys electoral system. Mexico: María Antonieta Castillo Santamaría, aged 53, who had spent four years in Haiti working with the United Nations mission, was confirmed killed. Niger: Security Officer Karimou Ide was killed. Nigeria: Ms. Dede Yebovi Fadairo, an Associate Report Writing Officer with the UN Stabilisation Mission, died in the earthquake. She was among the 121 Nigerians serving with (MINUSTAH) at the time of the earthquake. Peru: Luis Eduardo Chanllio Quispe, who worked in an office of the United Nations in Haiti, was killed when a wall collapsed while he was attempting to rescue others. Philippines: Pearly Panangui and Jerome Yap were confirmed dead in the collapse of the Hotel Christopher, and two others, Janice Arocena and Eustacio Bermudez, were still missing in the hotel. Also, Grace Fabian and Geraldine Calican remain trapped in the collapsed Caribbean Supermarket. Poland: One Polish UN worker was confirmed to have been killed in the earthquake. Tunisia: MINUSTAH head of mission Hédi Annabi was killed in the collapse of UN HQ at the Christopher Hotel. United Kingdom: Two British, Ann Barnes, personal assistant to the UN Police Commissioner; and Frederick Wooldridge, a dual Australian-British national and senior political affairs and planning officer at the UN, were killed in the collapse of the UN headquarters. United States: Lisa Mbele-Mbong, who was born to an American mother and Cameroonian father and grew up in the United States and Europe, died at the U.N. headquarters when a large slab of concrete struck her head. The United Nations also confirmed the death of Board of Inquiry Officer Ericka Chambers Norman. Uruguay: Lieutenant Colonel Gonzalo Martirené was in the United Nations headquarters at the time of the earthquake, his body was found on 17 January. (Wikipedia)
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