Port-au-Prince, Haiti January 22, 2010 — The Haitian government said Friday that the number of people killed in last week’s devastating earthquake has surpassed 110,000. The latest figure was announced by Haiti’s Interior Ministry, which had previously said at least 75,000 people lost their lives in the country’s worst earthquake in two centuries.
Nearly 200,000 people were injured and more than 600,000 left homeless after the 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit the Caribbean nation which shares borders with the Dominican Republic on January 12, 2010 the ministry said.
source: Xinhua
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i have several relatives who were also vicitimized by the earthquake in Haiti. thank God that they were not seriously hurt. i hope and pray that Haiti would be able to recover soon from this disaster.