Haiti has buried an estimated 52,000 victims since the earthquake on 12 January 2010. More bodies still lie under the rubble, but the total number of casualties will not surpass 100,000 - that's according to observation and research on the ground in Haiti, carried out by Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
This number is considerably smaller than the number of 217,000 victims the Haitian government claims to have counted so far, and far fewer than the estimated final count of 300,000 mentioned by President René Préval just last Sunday...
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http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/haiti-quake-death-toll-well-under-100000
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This mentions it a bit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake#Damage_and_casualties
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