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Haiti Earthquake Anniversary: Finding a Skull in the Rubble

One year after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, one man is still trying to rebuild. But instead of finding bricks and metal in the rubble, he found his 11-year-old neighbor's remains. Lisa Armstrong reports from Port au Prince.

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Damas Negrial gestures toward the skull discovered in the rubble near his Port-au-Prince home. (Credit: Andre Lambertson)

Damas Negrial started the day Wednesday clearing rubble. He is trying to rebuild his house in Fort National, a hilltop neighborhood in Port au Prince that was almost completely destroyed by the earthquake last January, and was salvaging bricks from the neighboring plot.

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