The death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti last week exceeded 112,000, according to new official figures released by the Haitian government on Sunday.
The local Radio Metropole quoted a statement by the Haitian interior ministry as saying that 112,226 bodies have been recovered so far. The previous figure stood at 111,481.
A total of 193,891 people were injured.
Over 610,000 people have been housed temporarily in 500 makeshift camps across the country.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the impoverished Caribbean nation on January 12. Estimates as to the final death toll in the earthquake range up to 200,000. Some 75,000 people have already been buried in an area north of the capital.
MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti)
