[Al Arabiya Latest] Haitian authorities have collected around 120,000 bodies of those killed in the Jan. 12 earthquake, but the final death toll could be tens of thousands higher, the government's spokeswoman said on Saturday.
"There have been around 120,000 corpses that we have gathered up, not counting those collected by their families," said Culture and Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said.
"We are now in the process of going round the funeral homes to count but that could add some tens of thousands more," she added. Authorities have been burying the dead in mass graves. |