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Bulldozers Clear Way for Mass Graves

Haiti

10,000 buried daily near Port-Au-Prince.

The Telegraph reports that approximately 90,000 people have been buried so far in the aftermath of the earthquake that ravaged Haiti, with even more bodies expected to be discovered as bulldozers begin clearing the wreckage in Port-Au-Prince. Officials believe another 110,000 corpses are still buried under rubble in and around the island nation's capital. Dump trucks have been transporting bodies to Titanyen, an unpopulated area north of the capital, where graves are being carved into hillsides by bulldozers. All this as Medicins Sans Frontieres says that the death toll is only expected to rise as injuries compound and refugee camps face potential outbreaks of diseases ranging from diarrhea to respiratory tract infections.

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