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| Haiti deaths top 120,000, likely higher: govt |
| 2010-01-24 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Haitian authorities have collected around 120,000 bodies of those killed in the Jan. 12 earthquake, but the final death toll could be tens of thousands higher, the government's spokeswoman said on Saturday. "There have been around 120,000 corpses that we have gathered up, not counting those collected by their families," said Culture and Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said. "We are now in the process of going round the funeral homes to count but that could add some tens of thousands more," she added. Authorities have been burying the dead in mass graves. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 said Culture and Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue Not many members of the Haitian government left, I hear. The ones that are left are having to do double and triple duty. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-24 23:33 |
| #3 WMF > CHINA STARTLED: HAITI'S TRAGIC STORY CAN REPEAT ITSELF IN CHINA. "Mud Brick" = SHODDY-IS-BEING-POLITE LOCAL CONSTRUX + poor Govt./Public Regulation-Oversight + EVER-RISING HIGH BIRTH RATES + PERVASIVE, PERENNIAL CIVIL UNREST-SECTARIANISM. This last one is only beginning in CHINA. * PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > OIL IN HAITI: ECONOMIC REASONS FOR THE US/UN OCCUPATION. The US allegedly discovered OIL in Haiti long ago, + sees the Quake as a real oportunity to covertly achieve direct control of post-Quake LOCAL OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL-GLOBAL TRADE??? SAME > SAUDI ARABIA'S OIL RESERVES IS NOT THE LARGEST | US GEOLOGICAL SERVICE: VENEZUELA'S ORINOCO OIL BELT RESERVES HOLDS 513.0BILYUHN BARRELS [recoverable heavy oil]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-01-24 20:55 |
| #2 Haiti just got hit with another aftershock. Initially rated at 5.3, it's been downgraded to 4.7. About the same center as the original quake. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-01-24 17:22 |
| #1 said Culture and Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue Where was she went she said it? The French Riviera? Haitian government = oxymoron. |
| Posted by: Gomez Threter7450 2010-01-24 14:07 |