Thursday, February 4, 2010

Haiti quake toll tops 200,000, premier says

Feb 4, 2010
Cambodia News

Port-au-Prince, Haiti - The number of people killed in last month's earthquake in Haiti has topped 200,000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said as protests erupted over the slow distribution of aid to survivors.
The government had previously said that the magnitude-7, January 12 quake had killed up to 200,000 people, but Bellerive said Wednesday that that number had been surpassed and the new toll did not include bodies that remained trapped in the rubble or those removed by families for burial. Read more: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/americas/news/article_1530886.php/Haiti-quake-toll-tops-200-000-premier-says#ixzz0ecOw760D

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