Official: Haiti death toll 100,000-plus

[Botany]

Source: UPI

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The death toll from Haiti's 7.0 magnitude earthquake is at least 100,000 and could be several times that number, Haitian officials said Wednesday.

Haitian Consul General Felix Augustin said the capital Port-au-Prince "is flattened, CNN reported.

"More than 100,000 are dead," Felix Augustin told reporters.

Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said it could be much worse, saying several hundred thousand people may have been killed.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/01/13/Official-Haiti-death-toll-100000-plus/UPI-31611263387242/

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[mzmolly]

1. Horrible,

horrible news.

[shawcomm]

2. Here's hoping it's not as bad as it looks

praying for those poor people. Sending as much money as I can too.

[EFerrari]

3. malaise called it.

:(

[Gregorian]

9. I was hoping she was wrong. Oh my god.

Unfathomable. My pathetic contribution will hardly do anything to help. :(

[Skittles]

4. sending my donation to Doctors Without Borders

:cry:

[Libertas1776]

5. The highest death toll from an earthquake ever

occurred in China over 450 years ago. The toll was over 800,000 people. Let's hope that Haiti comes nowhere close to breaking that macabre figure.

[shellgame26]

6. OMG..that's huge!

[phantom power]

7. Oh no.

[Downtown Hound]

8. My guess, and I hope I'm wrong

Is that it will be several hundred thousand by the time the counting is done.

[Botany]

10. a 7.0 earthquake with many people inside buildings that were in ...

.... many cases not well made could lead to many deaths. Also the loss of medical care buildings
along w/ the deaths of Drs. & Nurses is not good.

[polly7]

11. I read that most of the buildings were poorly made and out

of concrete? The surviving people trapped there, it's impossible to imagine what they're going through .... and with the rain, no power ...... just unreal.

[BeFree]

18. It is awful

The reason concrete is so widely used is because of hurricanes.
Unfortunately once you get all that weight moving via a quake, gravity takes over.

:cry:

[Irish_shark]

12. That's horrible. That's 1% of their population

It's truly a very sad tragedy. I hope many people can be rescued so this nation can move on and start over.

[VanW]

13. I really hope this is too high a guess

:(

I've heard more like 30,000 to 50,000 recently.

[XemaSab]

14. And in the one western country that is least able to deal with

injured people and a damaged infrastructure. :(

[shopgreen]

17. yes, so true

[Jefferson23]

15. One of the last places on earth that could even remotely deal with such an event.

Words fail, so give what you can.

[Odin2005]

16. My god, my god...

:cry: