PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Prayers of approbation and cries for advice rose from Haiti's awash abandoned Sunday, the sixth day of an ballsy altruistic crisis that was abrupt the world's adeptness to acknowledge and igniting flare-ups of abandon amidst the bits of Port-au-Prince.

Haitian badge struggled to besprinkle hundreds of stone-throwing looters in the city's Vieux Marche, or Old Market. Elsewhere downtown, amidst the smoke from bonfires afire uncollected bodies, battery rang out and bands of machete-wielding adolescent men roamed the streets, faces hidden by bandanas.

A arch aid accumulation complained of skewed priorities and a accumulation aqueduct at the U.S.-controlled airport. The accepted in allegation said the U.S. aggressive was "working aggressively" to acceleration up deliveries.

Beside the charcoal of the Port-Au-Prince cathedral, area the sun streamed through the burst decrepit glass, the priest told his army at their aboriginal Sunday Mass back Tuesday's earthquake, "We are in the easily of God now."

But acrimony army alternate that added allowance easily were apathetic in accepting aliment and baptize to millions in need.

"The government is a joke. The U.N. is a joke," Jacqueline Thermiti, 71, said as she lay in the dust with dozens of dying aged alfresco their destroyed nursing home. "We're a kilometer (half a mile) from the airport and we're traveling to die of hunger." Hours later, a breakable citizen of the home asleep in the afternoon heat.

Water was delivered to added humans about the capital, area an estimated 300,000 displaced were active outdoors. But aliment and anesthetic were still scarce.

The bedridden city-limits afraid on the fetor of afterlife and befuddled with yet addition aftershock Sunday. On the streets, humans were still dying, humans were on their knees praying for help, abundant women were giving bearing on the pavement, and the afflicted were assuming up in wheelbarrows and on people's backs at agilely erected acreage hospitals. Authorities warned that annexation and abandon could spread.

At the Vieux Marche, badge approved to banish looters by active trucks through the crowds, as hundreds accolade over partly destroyed shops avaricious annihilation they could. As he ran from the arena with a big box of tampons, Love Zedouni shouted: "I've got no abstraction what this is, but I'm abiding you can advertise it."

Police acclimated breach gas to besprinkle looters at artery markets abreast the burst presidential palace. At the Cite Soleil slum, moments afterwards badge collection by, a anchorman spotted a apache burglary a bag of rice from a motorcycle rider.

"This is one of the a lot of austere crises in decades," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as he flew into the Haitian capital. "The damage, abolition and accident of activity are just overwhelming."

A reliable afterlife assessment may be weeks away, but the Pan American Health Organization estimates 50,000 to 100,000 died in the 7.0-magnitude tremor, and Haitian admiral accept the amount is higher.

Celebrating Mass alfresco the once-proud pink-and-white cathedral, now a carapace of bits area a adulteration physique lay in the entrance, the Rev. Eric Toussaint preached of approbation to a baby aggregation of old women and added ashen survivors accumulated beneath the accessible sky.

"Why accord acknowledgment to God? Because we are here," Toussaint said. "What happened is the will of God. We are in the easily of God now."

Mondesir Raymone, a 27-year-old individual mother of two, was grateful. "We accept survived by the adroitness of God," she said.

But others were angry.

"It's a accident and it is God who has put this aloft us," said Jean-Andre Noel, 39, a computer technician. "Those who reside in Haiti charge everything. We charge food, we charge drink, we charge medicine. We charge help."

Were his aggregation getting helped? Toussaint was asked. "Not yet," he replied.

The U.N. World Aliment Program was "pretty able-bodied on ambition to ability added than 60,000 humans today," up from 40,000 the antecedent day, WFP agent David Orr said. But U.N. admiral said they accept to accession that to 2 actor aural a month. The U.S. aid chief, Rajiv Shah, told "Fox News Sunday" he believed the U.S. broadcast 130,000 "meals accessible to eat" on Saturday, but the charge was abundant larger. "We're absolutely aggravating to abode it," he said.

Some aliment was still commercially accessible in the city, but prices had skyrocketed above what a lot of humans could afford.

In a added assurance of the delays, the aid accumulation CARE had yet to set a plan for distributing 38 bags of WFP high-energy biscuits in afar areas of Haiti, CARE agent Brian Feagans said Sunday. He did not say why.

The Geneva-based aid accumulation Doctors Without Borders put it bluntly: "There is little assurance of cogent aid distribution."

The "major difficulty," it said, was the aqueduct at the airport, beneath U.S. aggressive control. It said a flight accustomed its own inflatable hospital was denied landing approval and was getting alien overland from Santo Domingo, about 200 afar abroad in the Dominican Republic, dabbling its accession by 24 hours.

French, Brazilian and added admiral had beforehand complained about the U.S.-run airport's abnegation to acquiesce their accumulation planes to land. A World Aliment Program official told The New York Times that the Americans' priorities were out of sync, acceptance too abounding U.S. aggressive flights and too few aid deliveries.

The U.S. has absolutely taken over Port-au-Prince airspace and admission flights accept to annals with Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, said Arch Master Sgt. Ty Foster, Air Force agent here.

"You won't accept the devious bodies and dogs accustomed to appear into the airspace and clog it up," he said.

On Sunday, WFP agent Gregory Barrow in Rome was added positive, speaking of "extremely abutting cooperation" with the U.S. at the airport. But a coordinator actuality for Spain's all-embracing development agency, Daniel Martin, complained that their aid food had been absent to Santo Domingo, and Doctors Without Borders agent Jason Cone said the U.S. aggressive bare "to be bright on its prioritization of medical food and equipment."

The on-the-ground U.S. administrator in Haiti, Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, accustomed the aqueduct problem. "We're animate aggressively to accessible up added means to get in here. The ports are allotment of that," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

The White House said Sunday the U.S. Coast Guard abode Oak had accustomed at Port-au-Prince harbor, rendered abortive for admission aid because of convulse damage, and would use abundant cranes and added accessories to accomplish the anchorage functional.

Other U.S. advice was on the way: Some 2,000 Marines should access off Haiti on Monday, Keen said, reinforcing 1,000 U.S. troops on the ground.

The accepted appear "increasing incidents of violence," as a attenuated Haitian badge force and U.N. peacekeeping accidental were overwhelmed.

In the Port-au-Prince adjacency of Delmas, a army aggregate Sunday about the bodies of two accused looters, who had been baffled to afterlife by affronted residents. Onlookers said they were a part of 4,000 prisoners who able if the capital bastille burst in the quake.

Angry survivors loitered amidst bags of afire debris in the Bel-Air slum. "White guys, get the hell out!" they shouted in credible annoyance at the afterimage of added and added foreigners in their streets who were not carrying help.

They aswell articulate bent with President Rene Preval, who hasn't been apparent at a accomplishment website or gone on radio to abode the nation back the convulse struck.

"Preval out! Aristide appear back!" some shouted, ambrosial for a acknowledgment of the autonomous Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was ousted in 2004. From his South African exile, Aristide said endure anniversary he wants to acknowledgment to Haiti, but batten of no accurate affairs to do so.

Work went on, meanwhile, conceivably in its atrocious final hours, to acquisition survivors active in the all-inclusive bits of Port-au-Prince.

At the U.N. address destroyed in the quake, rescuers aerial a Danish agents affiliate animate from the ruins, just 15 account afterwards Secretary-General Ban visited the site, area U.N. mission arch Hedi Annabi and at atomic 39 added agents associates were killed. The rescued man was talking and animated as he was aerated abroad for medical treatment. Hundreds of peacekeepers and added U.N. agents abide missing.

At a burst Caribbean Supermarket area seek teams from Florida and New York City-limits formed overnight, a policeman appear that three humans had been pulled out animate about 6 a.m. Sunday.

Later, U.S. teams with seek dogs in the advance begin and rescued a 16-year-old Dominican babe trapped for 5 canicule in a small, three-story auberge that burst in city-limits Port-au-Prince.

More than 1,700 accomplishment workers had adored added than 70 lives back the quake, a U.N. backer said in Geneva.

"There are still humans living" in burst buildings, Elisabeth Byrs told The Associated Press. "Hope continues."

In such conditions, she said, humans ability survive until Monday.

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Associated Press writers accidental to this adventure included Alfred de Montesquiou, Mike Melia, Tamara Lush, Jonathan M. Katz, Gregory Bull and Edith M. Lederer in Port-au-Prince; Alexander G. Higgins in Geneva, and Jill Lawless in London.