Haiti gives death toll of 270,000; offers no explanation
Haitian President Rene Preval said Wednesday that his government has buried 270,000 bodies since the Jan. 12 earthquake - many more than the 2004 Asian tsunami killed in a dozen nations - but it remains unclear who's doing the counting.
The new death toll, which Preval's office said he announced at a meeting with South American presidents in Ecuador, is 40,000 higher than one released by Preval's communications minister the previous day, even though a gravedigger at the mass graves just north of Port-au-Prince said only two bodies have been buried there this week. (AP)
