Haiti quake death toll rises to 230,000

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Haiti quake death toll rises to 230,000

* From: The Australian
* February 11, 2010 12:00AM


PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haiti's government raised the death toll for the January 12 quake to 230,000 yesterday, matching the toll from the 2004 Asian tsunami.

The grim milestone was announced as a quake-damaged Haitian supermarket collapsed in the capital with several people inside and rescue crews were working to pull them out last night.

"There were looters inside the building," site supervisor Meir Vaknin said. "I was trying to get rid of them and when the building fell,there were some of them inside."

Mr Vaknin estimated five to eight people had been in the supermarket and said at least one was spotted alive inside.

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