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Relief work shifts to aiding survivors

2010-01-22 13:09 BJT

Special Report: Strong Quake Hits Haiti |

 

The Haitian Government says the final death toll from the January 12th earthquake is estimated at 200-thousand. Eighty-thousand bodies have now been buried in mass graves.

Though the focus of relief efforts is now shifting from finding survivors to aiding the living, rescuers are not giving up hope that there are people still alive under rubble.

More than nine days after the mammoth earthquake struck Haiti, this rescue team from South Africa continues to search for victims.

But it's demoralizing work as hope for finding survivors has now all but vanished.

The Haitian Government says the final death toll from the January 12th earthquake is estimated at 200-thousand.
The Haitian Government says the final death toll from the January 12th earthquake
is estimated at 200-thousand.