The death toll in the Haiti quake has increased to 200,000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said as angry protests over the slow coming of aid flared on the rubble-strewn streets.
More than 3 weeks after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake, Bellerive said his small Caribbean nation had been ravaged by "a disaster on a terrestrial scale" and detailed the awful toll suffered by his people.
"There are more than 200,000 people who have been obviously identified as people who are dead," adding that another 300,000 injured had been treated, 250,000 houses had been destroyed and 30,000 businesses lost.
At least 4,000 amputations have also been passed out due to horrendous crush injuries -- a shocking figure which is likely to damage the impoverished nation's already meager resources for years to come.
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