* From correspondents in the UN
    * From: AFP
    * January 14, 2010 9:13AM

FOURTEEN UN staffers are confirmed dead and another 56 injured in the
earthquake that flattened the UN mission's main headquarters in
Port-au-Prince, a top UN official said.

Citing preliminary figures, Susana Malcorra, head of the UN department
of Field Support, said the world body could confirm 14 fatalities among
personnel of the UN mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and 56 others injured.

She said the number of UN personnel unaccounted for "is in the range of
150".

But Alain Leroy, the head of the UN peacekeeping department, said the
world body could not confirm an assertion by Haitian President Rene
Preval that the civilian head of MINUSTAH was killed in the quake.

"We cannot confirm this," he added, although Mr Annabi was in the
building and was likely buried under the rubble of MINUSTAH's main
building along with dozens of other UN staffers.

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Mr Leroy said his deputy Edmond Mulet, Annabi's predecessor, was on his
way to Port-au-Prince to take charge of MINUSTAH in an interim capacity.

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