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Hurricane Maria killed 4,600 in Puerto Rico, 70 times official toll: study

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rangerrebew:
Hurricane Maria killed 4,600 in Puerto Rico, 70 times official toll: study
May 29, 2018

Hurricane Maria, which pummeled Puerto Rico in September 2017, is likely responsible for the deaths of more than 4,600 people, some 70 times higher than official estimates, US researchers said Tuesday.

The government-provided death toll stands at just 64, but experts say an accurate count was complicated by the power outages and widespread devastation wreaked by the storm, which caused $90 billion in damages and is ranked as the third costliest cyclone in the United States since 1900.

Earlier independent investigations have put the true toll at closer to 1,000.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-05-hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-toll.html#jCp

rustynail:
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