HAITI…WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: The Horrifying Moment Lynch Mob Beats to Death a Looter and Drags his Body through the Streets as Haiti descends into Anarchy…

By Daily Mail Reporter

The horrifying moment lynch mob beats to death a looter and drags his body through the streets as Haiti descends into anarchy

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.

‘He had many friends in the UN and beyond, particularly Geneva where he loved skiing and mountaineering.’

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.

Men armed with machetes and other weapons walk brazenly through the capital city while others stalk the streets holding shotguns.

One Russian search team said the general insecurity was forcing them to suspend their rescue efforts after nightfall.

Some of the trouble stems from the destruction of the the country’s main jail and subsequent absence of its prisoners.

All the while rescue workers have continued to search for anybody still alive in the mountains of rubble.

A team from Britain used hammers and chisels to free a woman trapped beneath a collapsed concrete building.

They spent six hours digging the 39-year-old woman out from under the ruins of her home in Port-au-Prince.

Tensions have been rising among those awaiting international help and hunting for missing relatives as aid begins to trickle in four days after an earthquake that authorities say killed 200,000 people.

A senior U.N. official warned that hunger will fuel trouble if aid does not arrive soon, although the law and order situation remains under control ‘for the time being’.

But American secretary of state Hilary Clinton, who visited the country this weekend, has vowed the U.S. will stand by Haiti.

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