Port-au-prince, February 11: An Haiti official said on Wednesday that the Government has buried 217,000 bodies as a result of the devastating earthquake that hit a month ago.
Haiti Minister of Interior Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, said in a press conference that the death toll had risen from 212,000 to 217,000, Radio Metropole reported.
Minister Bien-Aime discounted the reports of the death toll being even as high as 230,000 earlier that day.
“There are people who put forth the figure of 230,000 but we have counted a bit more than 217,000. These are verified figures.”
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