Haiti earthquake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The death toll of last month's earthquake in Haiti was set at 230,000 but there are many more bodies that are yet to be recovered and counted.

The Haitian government this week added 18,000 to its previous total of dead. Officials said the figure only included victims the government buried. Many others were buried by families.

Haiti is still reeling from the Jan. 12 earthquake the devastated large areas of the country. Another 300,000 injuries were estimated and tens of thousands of buildings destroyed. Officials, with an eye on the upcoming rainy season, asked the international community for tents and other temporary housing for 1.1 million homeless.

Doctors said an emaciated man taken to a hospital Monday after being pulled from rubble could have been trapped for 27 days since the quake hit. He reportedly had access to water and fruit in the wreckage of a flea market that had collapsed.

Meanwhile, Port-au-Prince residents began planning remembrance gatherings for Friday, which will mark one month since the earthquake hit.