HAITI. PORT-AU-PRINCE. Image by Eduardo Munoz for Reuters-Landov. The confirmed death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake has risen above 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince area alone, a government minister has said. Many more bodies remain uncounted under rubble in the capital, including the towns of Jacmel and Leogane.
Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said the count was based on bodies collected in and around the capital by state company CNE. Ms Lassegue said that the authorities were still far from knowing the total number of those killed. "Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble - 200,000, 300,000? Who knows the overall death toll?"
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