The variety of folks recognized useless from the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti now stands at 2,207. Haiti’s Civil Safety announced in its newest depend Sunday that 344 folks had been reported lacking.
The official loss of life toll and lacking folks is a slight enhance from the company’s final tally on Wednesday, when it counted 2,189 deaths and 332 lacking folks.
The variety of injured folks and of destroyed and broken buildings stay the identical. Civil Safety counted 12,268 injured folks, 52,953 destroyed houses and 77,006 broken.
Safety Civil officers have but to clarify why the numbers solely barely modified when consultants have been saying the numbers must be considerably larger.
The three departments primarily impacted are the Southern, Nippes and Grand-Anse departments, which collectively have a inhabitants of about 1.6 million people.
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