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Haiti death toll tops 230,000 and now equals 2004 Boxing Day tsunami tragedy
Haiti's government has raised the official death toll for the Janurary 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000, and says more bodies remain uncounted.
The government initially estimated 150,000 dead from the tragedy, apparently from bodies being recovered in the rubble of collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince, the capital that was near the epicenter.
But tonight, communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue told news agency Associated Press that the government toll of fatalities was now at least 230,000 deaths.
However, she added the figure did not include bodies buried by private funeral homes in private cemeteries or the dead buried by their own families.
The new figure gives the quake the same terrible death toll as the 2004 Boxing Day Asian tsunami - making it one of the worst natural disaster in the history of mankind.
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