Devastating Haiti quake toll rises to 150,000

Haiti's Communications Minister confirmed in Port au Prince that 150,000 bodies had been recovered from the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti 12 days earlier.Haiti's earthquake death toll will top 150,000, a minister said as rescuers located a possible new survivor beneath the rubble of the capital 12 days after the disaster. The United Nations appealed for more troops to be sent in as police struggled to control fresh outbreaks of looting in devastated Port-au-Prince, while a new aftershock rocked the stricken country. It's very difficult to estimate how many more people might be dead, but the prime minister has spoken of 200,000, she added. Previously, Haitian health officials had quoted a figure of just over 112,000 dead. A 4.7-magnitude aftershock rattled Haiti, 12 days after the original 7.0 earthquake, the US Geological Survey and local residents said, although there were no reports of new casualties.While on the other side a seven year old Charlie Simpson organised his very own sponsored bike ride around a park in west London, hoping to raise five hundred pounds for food, water and tents, particularly to help the country's children. But the schoolboy's eight-kilometre ride around his local park was so successful that he ended up raising more than 65,000. His mother said Charlie's simple idea had grown beyond their expectations. Charlie will be donating the money to UNICEF who have launched the Haiti Earthquake Children's Appeal. The children's charity say that more than half of Haiti's 9.6 million inhabitants are under 21 years of age and many are in desperate need of clean water, shelter and medical help.