Haiti: Quake’s Toll Rises to 316,000

[Judi Lynn]

Haiti: Quake’s Toll Rises to 316,000
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: January 13, 2011

The government has raised the death toll for the January 2010 earthquake to 316,000, a substantial increase from the more than 250,000 deaths previously reported. Officials did not explain the change and did not respond to inquiries about it on Thursday. But Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, at a news conference on Wednesday marking the first anniversary of the disaster, suggested it had increased at least in part because additional bodies had been pulled from the rubble.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/world/americas/14briefs-Haiti.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss