Haiti earthquake: death toll reaches 212,000
source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7162170/Haiti-...
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The death toll from Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last month has reached 212,000, while the number of homeless may be far higher than the one million estimated by authorities, the prime minister has said.
"We have over 200,000 (dead). The last number I received from my services was 212,000 people that were collected on the streets and different places," Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN from Haiti's devastated capital Port-au-Prince.
Mr Bellerive said the toll, already the highest on record from any natural disaster in the Americas, was likely to rise "a little bit" higher as recovery crews pull bodies from locations where demolition had been delayed while rescue teams searched for survivors.
He also said more than 300,000 people had been injured in the disaster, and that most of them had received medical attention.
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"We have over 200,000 (dead). The last number I received from my services was 212,000 people that were collected on the streets and different places," Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN from Haiti's devastated capital Port-au-Prince.
Mr Bellerive said the toll, already the highest on record from any natural disaster in the Americas, was likely to rise "a little bit" higher as recovery crews pull bodies from locations where demolition had been delayed while rescue teams searched for survivors.
He also said more than 300,000 people had been injured in the disaster, and that most of them had received medical attention.
more at link.
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