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Friday,
December 31, 2004 (New Delhi):
The toll in the tsunami disaster across South and South
East Asia has crossed 1,23,000 and is expected to mount
further.
Indonesia is the hardest hit, with nearly 80,000 dead. The
toll could rise further as relief operation get underway in
the worst affected Aceh province.
In Sri Lanka over 28,000 people have been killed, and the
nation says it will need over a billion dollars to rebuild
the lives of those affected.
In India the official toll stands at over 7,000 dead, but
unofficial estimates say it could be as high as 12,000.
Over 8,200 people have lost their lives in Thailand and as
many as 6,000 are missing. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin
Shinawatra said 80 per cent of the missing are presumed dead.
Among the other nations 120 have been reported dead in
Somalia, 90 in Myanmar, 67 in Maldives, 65 in Malaysia, 10 in
Tanzania, two in Bangladesh and one each in Seychelles and
Kenya.
Mounting figures
Meanwhile, Indonesia's health minister warned that the
death toll could reach 100,000 and that water-born disease
could become a threat.
"We expect the death toll to rise to 100,000 because we're
finding more and more bodies from the hard-hit remote
northwest coast of Sumatra island," said Health Minister Siti
Fadillah Supadi.
The flow of aid – including medicine and body bags for the
dead – got a big boost as the first of many expected C-130
cargo planes arrived at the regional airport.
Relief teams from Taiwan, Australia, South Korea and other
nations were also already on the ground.
(With AP inputs)
news from ndtv.com
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