Children found alive in Haiti school rubble

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNN) -- Rescue workers pulled two uninjured children from the rubble of a school that collapsed the day before, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said Saturday.

Volunteers search for survivors in the rubble of a school that collapsed Friday in Petionville, Haiti.

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The children have been reunited with their families, Rob Drouen said.
Their rescue came hours after the death toll from the collapse climbed to 82 with the discovery of 21 bodies in a classroom, President Rene Preval said, according to Clarens Renois of the Haitian Press Network.
The bodies included a teacher and 20 students, Preval said, according to Renois.
The president was at the school in Petionville, near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. "Rescue operations are still under way," Renois said.
As many as 700 children were inside when the building collapsed around 10 a.m. ET Friday, officials said. Some were in class and others were in a playground, Haitian media reported.
About 100 to 200 students could be still trapped inside, Renois said. "Maybe they are alive, maybe they are dead."