Nova Scotia RCMP officer missing in Haiti

A Nova Scotia RCMP officer is one of two Canadian police officers still unaccounted for after an earthquake in Haiti Tuesday.

RCMP Sgt. Mark Gallagher was the media spokesman for the force in Nova Scotia before he left for Haiti.

His wife Lisa says he’d been home for Christmas and had just returned to Haiti the day of the earthquake. She says she spoke to him about 30 minutes before it happened.

“He had just arrived in Port-au-Prince and he was exhausted, jetlag,” she said. “And he was going to bed and that was about 4:30, about a half an hour before the earthquake hit.”

 Ms. Gallagher says there’s been no contact with him since then, but she is not giving up hope.

 “I’m assuming that his apartment building has sustained some damage,” she said. “I just hope he’s not stuck in the rubble.”

Gallagher and the other missing RCMP officer are part of a Canadian government program to train Haitian police officers.

The other 14 Nova Scotians known to be in Haiti, involved with an orphanage outside Port-au-Prince, are all safe and unharmed.

Sandra MacDonald, whose sister Karen Huxter runs the Hands Across the Sea orphanage, says they all fled the orphanage when the quake struck.

“And they watched the building sway but nothing collapsed so they are safe where they are,” says MacDonald.

Phone service is out, so the only communication with her sister is by email.

Three Canadians in Haiti – a Montreal couple and a nurse from Ontario have been confirmed among the dead. 

 

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