More than 100,000 bodies have been buried in mass graves but that may be less than a third of the ultimate death toll from the massive earthquake that destroyed Haiti’s capital city Port-au-Prince and its surrounding areas. Officials are now estimating the deathtoll to be at around 300,000 once all of the bodies have been found and the diseases stemming from conditions on the ground prove to be even more catastrophic than the quake.

With so much of the country in rubble, officials cannot give a good estimate of how many people have died (the estimate had previously ...continue reading]]> http://www.nycmagazine.com/2010/01/23/300000-estimated-dead-in-haiti/feed/ 0 http://www.nycmagazine.com/2010/01/19/more-than-200000-likely-dead-in-haiti/ http://www.nycmagazine.com/2010/01/19/more-than-200000-likely-dead-in-haiti/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:00:55 +0000 Igor Derysh http://www.nycmagazine.com/?p=1275

Official estimates now state that at least 200,000 people have died because of last week’s earthquake and many are estimating the the ultimate death toll will be closer to 500,000 or nearly 5 percent of Haiti’s 10+ million residents.

Though it is still unknown how many people died in the earthquake as relief crews continued to work twenty-four hour days to clean through the rubble and find anyone dead or still somehow living, the damage caused by the earthquake has left countless people without access to clean water or medical supplies.

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