Haiti quake death toll should be far below 2010 disaster: USAID
The Peninsula
MEXICO CITY - The death toll from Haiti's earthquake on Saturday is unlikely to be "anywhere near" a 2010 quake on the island nation that killed more than 200,000 people, officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said on Tuesday.
USAID teams had so far not found people alive trapped in buildings, officials said on a conference call that included State Department officials, after the latest quake, which claimed the lives of at least 1,419 people. "We do not anticipate that the death toll related to this earthquake will be anywhere near the 2010 earthquake where more than 200,000 people were killed," said USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs Assistant Administrator Sarah Charles.
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