Haiti quake victim rescue operation declared ‘over’
The United Nations says Haiti’s government has declared the search and rescue phase for survivors of the earthquake over.
The announcement came a day after two people, an 84-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man, were pulled alive from the rubble in Port-au-Prince.
The UN spokeswoman Elizabeth Byrs says 132 people have been rescued by international search teams.
On Friday the official government death toll from the quake rose to 110,000.
Ms Byrs said humanitarian relief efforts were still being scaled up in Port-au-Prince, as well as in the towns of Jacmel, Leogane and other areas affected by the earthquake.
At least 75,000 bodies have so far been buried in mass graves, Haiti’s government has said. Many more remain uncollected in the streets.
An estimated 1.5 million people were left homeless by the 7.0-magnitude quake, which some have estimated has killed as many as 200,000 people.
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