Policia Militar do Haiti sustenta que as mortes chegaram ao patamar de setenta mil, até o momento

70,000 deaths from Haitian quake recorded, PM says

Fonte: Portal da CNN

Haitian authorities have recorded more than 70,000 deaths since last week's magnitude 7 earthquake outside Port-au-Prince, the country's prime minister said Tuesday.
Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said that at least 72,000 bodies have been recovered since the quake. That figure does not include bodies buried by families or collected by the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
Some death toll estimates for the earthquake, which struck just south of Port-au-Prince, range from 100,000 to 150,000 in Port-au-Prince alone.
At least one person was pulled alive from rubble in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, seven days after the earthquake. Anna Zizi was rescued from rubble either at or near the national cathedral, CNN's Anderson Cooper reported.
Her son, Maxime Janvier, told CNN that he never gave up hope that she'd be found.
"We were praying a lot for that to happen," he told CNN on Tuesday afternoon, about 15 minutes after he learned she'd been rescued.
A week after the January 12 earthquake, much of of the Haitian capital lay in heaps of rubble. Roads remained damaged and a main port was still closed. Food, water and other aid has arrived, but some say the distribution of supplies is slow.
Despite challenges, the situation is improving, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. He announced Tuesday that the United Nations Security Council has approved a proposal to send an additional 2,000 soldiers and 1,500 police officers to the small country.





Capacity at Port-au-Prince's airport is improving, and the port is expected to be reopened next week, Ban said. New corridors have been cleared on land, he said.
The United Nations estimates that 3 million people need of food, water, shelter and medical assistance.