Haiti earthquake death toll passes 2,200

Port-au-Prince: Haiti's Civil Protection Agency said Sunday that the toll from this month's magnitude 7.2 earthquake has grown to 2,207, with 344 people still missing.

The previous figure had been 2,189 on Wednesday. The agency said via Twitter that 12,268 people were injured and nearly 53,000



houses were destroyed by the August 14 quake. The new toll comes at a time when relief operations are expanding — the US-based aid agency Samaritan's Purse opened a field hospital Saturday — but authorities are struggling with security at distribution points.