PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — 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 from bodies being recovered in the rubble of collapsed buildings.
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Haiti government says death toll for earthquake up to 230,000
February 10, 2010
A translator sits with Emmanuel Etan as a team of British doctors amputate his right leg at their field hospital in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Etan was injured in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands.
