Haiti death toll 'to reach 300,000' as another 5,000 bodies recovered from rubble
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Pastor Dale Morgan
Feb 24, 2010, 2:49:13 AM2/24/10
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Haiti death toll 'to reach 300,000' as another 5,000 bodies recovered from rubble
The death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake will top 270,00 the United Nations has said, after President Rene Preval said the number could eventually reach 300,000.
Published: 7:00AM GMT 24 Feb 2010
The revised toll comes as outbreaks of unrest continue to disrupt attempts to restore order to the battered country
Haiti's civil protection agency has added an increase of 5,000 dead bodies recovered since the last estimate given a week ago," the UN's humanitarian affairs coordination body said.
With the new figures, the earthquake toll surpasses the death toll of the 2004 Asian tsunami, widely held to be at least 270,000.
Preval said Sunday in an appeal for international aid at a summit of Caribbean leaders that the toll could reach 300,000 in what some experts say could be the worst natural disaster in modern history.
Some 1.2 million were left homeless by the 7.0-magnitude quake.
The revised toll comes as outbreaks of unrest continue to disrupt attempts to restore order to the battered country.
Angry crowds in a seaside slum attacked a group of Voodoo practitioners, pelting them with rocks and halting a ceremony meant to honor victims of last month's deadly earthquake.
Voodooists gathered in Cite Soleil where thousands of quake survivors live in tents and depend on food aid. Praying and singing, the group was trying to conjure spirits to guide lost souls when a crowd of Evangelicals started shouting. Some threw rocks while others urinated on Voodoo symbols. When police left, the crowd destroyed the altars and Voodoo offerings of food and rum.
Tensions have been running high since the Jan. 12 earthquake. More than 150 machete-wielding men attacked a World Food Program convoy earlier this week on the road between Haiti's second-largest city of Cap-Haitien and Port-au-Prince. There were no injuries but Chilean peacekeepers could not prevent the men from stealing the food, UN spokesman Michel Bonnardeaux said.
Haiti death toll 'to reach 300,000' as another 5,000 bodies recovered from rubble
The death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake will top 270,00 the United Nations has said, after President Rene Preval said the number could eventually reach 300,000.
Published: 7:00AM GMT 24 Feb 2010
The revised toll comes as outbreaks of unrest continue to disrupt attempts to restore order to the battered country
Haiti's civil protection agency has added an increase of 5,000 dead bodies recovered since the last estimate given a week ago," the UN's humanitarian affairs coordination body said.
With the new figures, the earthquake toll surpasses the death toll of the 2004 Asian tsunami, widely held to be at least 270,000.
Preval said Sunday in an appeal for international aid at a summit of Caribbean leaders that the toll could reach 300,000 in what some experts say could be the worst natural disaster in modern history.
Some 1.2 million were left homeless by the 7.0-magnitude quake.
The revised toll comes as outbreaks of unrest continue to disrupt attempts to restore order to the battered country.
Angry crowds in a seaside slum attacked a group of Voodoo practitioners, pelting them with rocks and halting a ceremony meant to honor victims of last month's deadly earthquake.
Voodooists gathered in Cite Soleil where thousands of quake survivors live in tents and depend on food aid. Praying and singing, the group was trying to conjure spirits to guide lost souls when a crowd of Evangelicals started shouting. Some threw rocks while others urinated on Voodoo symbols. When police left, the crowd destroyed the altars and Voodoo offerings of food and rum.
Tensions have been running high since the Jan. 12 earthquake. More than 150 machete-wielding men attacked a World Food Program convoy earlier this week on the road between Haiti's second-largest city of Cap-Haitien and Port-au-Prince. There were no injuries but Chilean peacekeepers could not prevent the men from stealing the food, UN spokesman Michel Bonnardeaux said.
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