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Haiti: Death Toll Tops 150K

But UN places number at 111K

By the Associated Press

Posted Jan 24, 2010 12:14 PM CST

(AP) – The confirmed death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake has topped 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area alone, the communications minister said today, with many more thousands dead around the country or still buried under the rubble. Communications minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said the figure...   Read full story »

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