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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Earthquake death toll worked down to 60

GANGTOK, 26 Sept: The death toll of the devastating earthquake of 18 September has come down. The official figure now stands at 60 deaths, down by 17 from the last count of 77 deaths.
This was decided at a meeting held yesterday among police officials, it is informed.
The reason given for the reduction in the numbers of the dead is that 17 deaths have not been confirmed. All the 17 unconfirmed deaths are from North Sikkim.
While earlier, the death toll in North district was 58, this has also now been worked down to 41 deaths.
The figures for other three districts remain the same with East district at 14, West at 4 and South at 1 death. Subsequent to the meeting, a notice was issued which stated that 17 deaths of north Sikkim had not been confirmed, inform officials.
Officials informed that while figures of the dead had come in from various places of north Sikkim, several had no names accompanying the figures. It was also felt that the figures given for the dead bodies recovered in various places of north Sikkim had been duplicated in a record-keeping oversight. That is to say, the bodies recovered in one place could also have been included in the figures which came in from other places as well. One way to avoid this duplication, officials decided, would be by counting the death toll against the names of the dead.

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