Haiti raises estimate of earthquake's death toll to 230,000

[KittyWampus]

Haiti raises estimate of earthquake's death toll to 230,000 _ on par with 2004 Asian tsunami

Staff
AP News

Feb 09, 2010 17:35 EST

Haiti's government has raised the death toll for the Jan. 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000 and says more bodies remain uncounted.


The government initially estimated 150,000 dead on Jan. 24, apparently from bodies being recovered in the rubble of collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince, the capital that was near the epicenter.

Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said Tuesday the government now counts 230,000 deaths.

But she says the new figure is not definitive. She says it does not include bodies buried by private funeral homes in private cemeteries or the dead buried by their own families.

The new figure gives the quake the same death toll as the 2004 Asian tsunami.

Source: AP News

[BunkerHill24]

1. Sad! Sad! Sad!

When you consider Haiti's population of 9.8 million....that's huge loss.

[Selatius]

3. It would be the equivalent of losing a city of 7,000,000 in proportion to the US population.

Imagine the Big One doing that to the state of California. Or a multi-megaton warhead fired at a major US city.

[maryf]

2. Where are the recs?

We only care about the evangelists in regard to Haiti now? K&R