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Earthquake survivors wait for aid in a makeshift refugee camp at the Petion ville neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince - Source: Reuters -
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Haitian authorities have collected around 120,000 bodies of
those killed in the January 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.
Officials in Haiti have been estimating a death toll from the quake
of between 100,000 and 200,000.
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