Death Toll Passes 200K: PM

300K more injured, Jean-Max Bellerive says
By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 3, 2010 6:59 PM CST
Death Toll Passes 200K: PM
A damaged wooden house clings from a concrete structure today in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.   (AP Photo)

The death toll in Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake has passed 200,000, the nation’s prime minister says, calling the temblor “a disaster on a planetary scale.” Jean-Max Bellerive tells AFP that some 300,000 more are injured, 250,000 homes and 30,000 businesses lost—and more than 4,000 people have seen limbs amputated after being pinned by rubble.
(More Haiti earthquake stories.)

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