WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
A mob of men and children watch as the bloodied corpse of a suspected thief is brutally beaten by a man with a stick.
The victim is naked and bound at his hands and feet. It is broad daylight in the devastated capital city of Haiti.
These are the latest in a series of chilling images from the country as anarchy threatens to destabilise the relief effort following Tuesday’s earthquake.
As more people are pulled from the rubble, United Nations worker Frederick Wooldridge was tonight confirmed as the first Briton to have died in the quake.
Mr Wooldridge’s family paid tribute to him saying he ‘loved’ his work with the UN where he was a Senior Political Affairs and Planning Officer.
They said: ‘Frederick was a much-loved member of a close family. He leaves behind his wife, his parents, brother and sister, grandmother and extended family.
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Meanwhile, fears are growing for the continued safety of the nation with violence rife as scavengers and looters swarm over the wrecks of shops, carrying off anything they can find.
Robbers prey on survivors struggling without supplies in makeshift camps on roadsides littered with debris and decomposing bodies.