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| Situation Update No. 78 Ref.no.: EQ-20100112-24531-HTI
Situation Update No. 78
On 2010-02-22 at 19:24:40 [UTC]
Event: Earthquake
Location: Haiti Capital City Port-au-Prince area
Number of Deads: 300000 person(s)
Number of Injured: 300000 person(s)
Number of Evacuated: 500000 person(s)
Situation: The death toll from last month's devastating earthquake in Haiti could jump to 300,000 people, including the bodies buried under collapsed buildings in the capital, Haitian President Rene Preval said on Sunday. "You have seen the images, you are familiar with the pictures. More than 200,000 bodies were collected on the streets without counting those that are still under the rubble," Preval told a meeting of Latin American and Caribbean leaders in Mexico. "We might reach 300,000 people." That would make Haiti's earthquake one of the most lethal natural disasters in modern history, more than the 200,000 people killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. The cost of rebuilding the impoverished country after the 7.0-magnitude quake could be as high as $14 billion, according to the Inter-American Development Bank. Preval's plea for aid will be at the top of the agenda at the regional summit being held near the Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen. |  | | | |
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