Haiti quake death toll may hit 200,000: minister

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Haiti quake death toll may hit 200,000: minister

Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:49pm EST

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The death toll from Haiti's earthquake could reach 200,000, Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime told Reuters on Friday.

"We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies we anticipate there will be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead in total, although we will never know the exact number," he said.

(Reporting by Andrew Cawthorne; editing by Chris Wilson)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60E5SO20100115

 

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Re: Haiti quake death toll may hit 200,000: minister

U.S. General Warns Death Toll from Earthquake in Haiti Could Hit 200,000


Atlanta, Ga. 1/18/2010 04:28 PM GMT (TransWorldNews - Top Story)

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According to estimates as many as 70,000 people have already been buried in mass graves and U.S. Lt Gen Ken Keen has said that death toll could hit as high as 200,000 as the disaster was of ?epic proportions.?


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