{"id":11357,"date":"2021-09-07T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T02:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11357"},"modified":"2021-09-07T10:50:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T02:50:51","slug":"death-toll-from-haiti-earthquake-rises-to-2248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11357","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from Haiti earthquake rises to 2,248"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 7 &#8212; The death toll from the Haiti earthquake has climbed to 2,248, with 329 people still unaccounted for, the Civil Protection Agency said on Monday, after completing rescue operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Aug 14 earthquake killed 2,248 people, injured 12,763, and 329 are still missing,\u201d\u00a0Sputnik quoted the statement as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.49.04.png\" alt=\"death\" class=\"wp-image-11358\" width=\"528\" height=\"327\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Two more death were reported but the authorities did not confirm that they were caused by the earthquake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Aug 14, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti and was shortly followed by a tropical storm. Since then, 900 quakes have been registered, 400 of them with a magnitude over 3. At least 25,000 people are still unable to return home, as over 53,000 houses were destroyed and over 83,000 were damaged by the natural disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=2000560\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 7 &#8212; The death toll from the Haiti earthquake has climbed to 2,248,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsium-slider-full":"","newsium-featured":"","newsium-medium":""},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11359,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357\/revisions\/11359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}