And that just counts those who have been buried by the government: there are still more bodies under rubble from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake, victims in rural areas or those who were already buried by relatives or those other than government workers. More from the Associated Press:

“‘Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble,’ said Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said. Asked about the total number of victims, she said, ’200,000? 300,000? Who knows the overall death toll?’

Lassegue told The Associated Press that the government’s figure of 150,000 buried from just the capital area was based on figures from CNE, a state company that is collecting corpses and burying them north of Port-au-Prince.

An estimate of 200,000 dead was reported last week by the European Commission, citing Haitian government sources. As of Monday, the United Nations was reporting at least 112,250 confirmed deaths, based on recovered bodies.

The final toll 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.”

The United Nations has posted updated lists of those confirmed dead from their staff and from the U.N. peacekeeping mission there. (For more on why peacekeepers were there in the first place, click here.)

The AP also reports on the urgent need for tent cities and temporary shelter for as many as one million people, one in nine across the country. About two million Haitians are in need of food, estimates the U.N. World Food Program.

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