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In the aftermath of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the casualty estimates have been necessarily tentative.
the government's figure of 150, 000 buried, from the capital area alone, was reported by CNE, a state company collecting corpses and burying them north of Port-au-Prince.
That number would tend to confirm an overall estimate of 200, 000 dead reported by the European Commission, citing Haitian government sources.
The United Nations, meanwhile, was sticking with an earlier confirmed death toll of at least 111, 481, based on recovered bodies.
The final casualty estimates, which the European Commission said also include some 250, 000 injured, will clearly place the Haiti earthquake among the deadliest natural catastrophes of recent times.
That list includes: the 1970 Bangladesh cyclone, believed to have killed 300, 000 people; the 1974 northeast China earthquake, which killed at least 242, 000 people; and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, with 226, 000 dead.
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