150,000 Victims Now Buried in Communal Graves in Haiti

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Dealing with the living, meanwhile, a global army of aid workers was getting more food into people's hands, but acknowledged falling short. "We wish we could do more, quicker," said UN World Food Program chief Josette Sheeran, visiting Port-au-Prince.

"We also need tents. There is a shortage of tents," said Vincent Houver, the Geneva-based agency's chief of mission in Haiti. Their Port-au-Prince warehouse has 10,000 family-size tents, but some 100,000 are needed, he said. The organization has appealed for $30 million for that and other needs, and has received two-thirds of that so far.

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150,000 Victims Now Buried in Communal Graves in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The truckers filling Haiti's mass graves with bodies reported ever higher num...

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