The high number of dead people, more than 200 000, confirms the impressive magnitude of the tragedy taking place in Haiti due to the earthquake that devastated its capital on January 12.

The staggering piece of information was presented on Tuesday by Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerrive during an appearance in the senate, where two members died due to the quake.

Bellerrive stressed that the number does not include the corpses that are still under the rubble, nor the victims buried by their families. The 7-degree on Richter scale earthquake left more than 190 000 injured people, many of them with amputations, a high number of orphans and three and a half millions victims.

The catastrophe, considered to be the worst in the history of the country, destroyed from emblematic buildings as the Presidential Palace and the seat of the Parliament to hundreds of thousands of houses and most of schools and hospitals.

The Prime Minister proposed the senators the creation of a crisis cabinet to face the emergency and the reconstruction of the country.

This hard situation also led to the suspension of the legislative elections scheduled to take place on February 28 and March 3, announced the Provisional Electoral Council.

Meanwhile, a judge is still interrogating the members of a group of ten Americans, who were arrested on Saturday when they were trying to take out of the country 33 undocumented children.

After the quake, the United Nations Children's Fund warned about the traffic of Haitian children for alleged adoption processes.