Haiti's National Palace to be torn down (by Sean Penn charity)
Source: AP
Haiti's crumpled National Palace will be torn down, with demolition work to begin in the next 10 days on the building all but destroyed in the 2010 earthquake, the country's government has announced.
Haitian government spokesman Lucien Jura said the quake aid group founded by actor Sean Penn would oversee the demolition. Penn was made an ambassador-at-large for Haiti after the earthquake. His group was not charging for the work, which was expected to take about two months, Jura said.
The earthquake toppled hundreds of buildings in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and in other cities to the south. The National Palace was among them, its white dome and the rest of the structure falling into itself.
The collapse forced government officials to work from a tiny police station near the international airport after the earthquake, co-ordinating the arrival of aid. Authorities now conduct day-to-day operations from a cluster of prefabricated buildings on the grounds of the National Palace, which is the official residence of the president.
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