So Sad

As relief efforts ramp up, mass grave found outside Haitian capital
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- As Haitians drew close to the critical 72-hour mark after a devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake, a sign of their desperation -- a mass grave serving as possibly the final resting place of scores of victims -- was discovered Friday outside Port-au-Prince.

At least 100 bodies were discovered by a CNN crew in one open pit outside the capital city, with several other pits half-filled or completely covered over with earth, presumably full. Survivors of the quake brought bodies to the site on plywood, wrapped in cloth, by dump trucks and, in one case, an old refrigerator. The stench of death overwhelmed the city.

Elsewhere, bodies were being shoved into old crypts in the city's existing cemeteries.

Haiti's Minister of Civil Protection said Friday that the government estimates more than 50,000 people were killed, with the number possibly closer to 100,000. There is not yet an official count of the dead from Tuesday's earthquake

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