PARIS - The Tunisian head of UN peacekeepers in Haiti and "all those around him" are believed dead after their headquarters collapsed in the huge earthquake there, France's foreign minister said Wednesday.

"The building of the UN peace mission... collapsed and it would appear that all those who were in the building, including my friend Hedi Annabi and that all those who were with
him and around him are dead," Bernard Kouchner said.

Annabi is the head of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).