CNN
January 13, 2010
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Officials fear more than 100,000 people have died as a result of Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti.
The capital, Port-au-Prince, “is flattened,” said Haiti’s consul general to the U.N., Felix Augustin, who said he believed more than 100,000 people were dead. Hospitals are gone, and medical supplies and heavy equipment are desperately needed, he said.
The country’s prime minister said the death toll could be in the hundreds of thousands.
“I hope that is not true, because I hope the people had the time to get out,” Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN. more …
