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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

In Haiti, Death Toll Remains a Mystery

By ALFONSO CHARDY/achardy@MiamiHerald.com AND JACQUELINE CHARLES

It may never be known how many people actually died in the Haitian earthquake as government figures fluctuate.
TITANYEN -- The view from the busy two-lane road is spectacular: tall limestone mountains rising to the east and the turquoise Caribbean shimmering to the west.

But this is no tourist resort. It's the site of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of mass graves where government crews buried tens of thousands of people killed by January's 7.0-magnitude earthquake.