45 lynched by rioters amid Haiti cholera panic as death toll hits 2600
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Pastor Dale Morgan
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45 lynched by rioters amid Haiti cholera panic as death toll hits 2600
* From correspondents in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
* From: AFP
* December 23, 2010 11:47AM
ANGRY mobs have lynched at least 45 people in Haiti in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a cholera outbreak that has killed over 2600 people across the country, officials have said.
The number included at least 14 suspected sorcerers previously known to have been lynched in the far southwestern region of Grand Anse as local people feared they were spreading cholera with a magical substance.
Haiti's cholera death toll since the mid-October outbreak has reached 2600. Health ministry figures as of December 17, the most recent day recorded, showed that 121,518 people have been treated for the illness.
At the outbreak's peak in November there were daily death tolls of 80 and above.
The outbreak, Haiti's first in more than a century, spawned deadly anti-UN riots last month as a desperate populace turned its anger on international peacekeepers accused of bringing the disease into the country.
A team of US and Haitian researchers confirmed that the outbreak was likely sparked by a human source from outside the region. The UN has said it will name an international panel to investigate the origin of the epidemic.
45 lynched by rioters amid Haiti cholera panic as death toll hits 2600
* From correspondents in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
* From: AFP
* December 23, 2010 11:47AM
ANGRY mobs have lynched at least 45 people in Haiti in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a cholera outbreak that has killed over 2600 people across the country, officials have said.
The number included at least 14 suspected sorcerers previously known to have been lynched in the far southwestern region of Grand Anse as local people feared they were spreading cholera with a magical substance.
Haiti's cholera death toll since the mid-October outbreak has reached 2600. Health ministry figures as of December 17, the most recent day recorded, showed that 121,518 people have been treated for the illness.
At the outbreak's peak in November there were daily death tolls of 80 and above.
The outbreak, Haiti's first in more than a century, spawned deadly anti-UN riots last month as a desperate populace turned its anger on international peacekeepers accused of bringing the disease into the country.
A team of US and Haitian researchers confirmed that the outbreak was likely sparked by a human source from outside the region. The UN has said it will name an international panel to investigate the origin of the epidemic.
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