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Saturday,
January 1, 2005 (New Delhi):
The United Nation says the number of people killed by the
tsunami is nearing 1,50,000 and the exact figures may never
be known.
"The vast majority of those are in Indonesia and Aceh, which
is the least assessed area because of logistical
constraints," said UN emergency relief coordinator Jan
Egeland.
"We will never, ever have the absolute, definite figure
because there are many nameless fishermen and villages that
have just gone, and we have no chance of finding out how many
they were," he added.
The world body said $1.2 billion has been pledged in aid so
far for the nearly five million survivors.
Indonesia battles
Indonesia has emerged as the country worst affected
accounting for more than two-thirds of the dead.
Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said Friday
her officials had stopped trying to count the dead. It would
from now on give only general casualty estimates since the
death toll was too large to provide an exact tally, the state
Antara news agency said.
The ministry said earlier the final casualty number would
likely reach up to 100,000. Its last confirmed figure was
79,940.
Lankan numbers
Sri Lankan authorities said the country's death toll from
devastating weekend tsunamis had risen by 43 to 28,551.
S K Bandara of the National Disaster Management Center said
12,482 people were injured and 4,916 remained missing.
Nearly 1 million people have been displaced and are living in
770 temporary camps in schools and religious places.
(With
Reuters input)
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