Rutland Father describes 'living hell' waiting for daughter's body

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By CBS 3 Springfield News

Story Published: Feb 5, 2010 at 4:24 PM EDT

Story Updated: Feb 5, 2010 at 4:24 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A Massachusetts man whose college
student daughter remains missing and presumed buried in the rubble
of a Haitian hotel describes his life as "a living hell on
Earth."

Len Gengel of Rutland says he's living in limbo, awaiting in
dread for the call that says daughter Britney's body has been found
in the wreckage of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince.

Gengel's daughter and three other students from Lynn University
in Florida are believed to have been trapped inside the Montana
when the January 12th quake struck.

The U.S. State Department has pledged to recover every American
still unaccounted for in Haiti.

That's given the Gengels some comfort, as has the fact that
their 19-year-old daughter was happy in Haiti.

She called her parents shortly before the quake to say she had
found her calling in helping the impoverished nation.

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