Red Cross estimates 50,000 dead in Haiti quake

 

Published: January 14, 2010

Update

GENEVA (AP) — The Red Cross federation says it estimates there have been 45,000-50,000 deaths in the Haitian earthquake.

Spokesman Jean-Luc Martinage says the Haitian Red Cross came up with the estimate based on information from a wide network of volunteers across the quake-stricken capital of Port-au-Prince .

Martinage says it also is a number that government ministers have been usin...


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