Kaieteur News: "PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – The truckers filling Haiti’s mass graves with bodies reported ever higher numbers: More than 150,000 quake victims have been buried by the government, an official said yesterday.
That doesn’t count those still under the debris, carried off by relatives or killed in the outlying quake zone.
Government has claimed the toll from the country’s earthquake could rise to as many as 300,000 dead.
“Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble — 200,000? 300,000? Who knows the overall death toll?” said the official, Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue.
Dealing with the living, meanwhile, a global army of aid workers was getting more food into people’s hands, but acknowledged falling short. “We wish we could do more, quicker,” said UN World Food Program chief Josette Sheeran, visiting Port-au-Prince."
That doesn’t count those still under the debris, carried off by relatives or killed in the outlying quake zone.
Government has claimed the toll from the country’s earthquake could rise to as many as 300,000 dead.
“Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble — 200,000? 300,000? Who knows the overall death toll?” said the official, Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue.
Dealing with the living, meanwhile, a global army of aid workers was getting more food into people’s hands, but acknowledged falling short. “We wish we could do more, quicker,” said UN World Food Program chief Josette Sheeran, visiting Port-au-Prince."
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