Tidal waves sweep tourists away
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Bangkok - Huge tidal waves struck southern Thailand&#39;s popular resort island of Phuket on Sunday, sweeping at least four foreign tourists out to sea, sinking boats and forcing the evacuation of hotels, officials said on state radio.
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Two British tour operators, MyTravel and First Choice, reported a total of eight deaths among their clients from the tidal waves which devastated Asian beach resorts.
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A huge earthquake under the Indian Ocean has unleashed tidal waves killing at least 150 people in Sri Lanka, sent residents rushing in panic to high ground in Indonesia, and sent walls of water crashing into the Indian city of Chennai and the Thai tourist
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Rescuers were hoping for "individual miracles" of survival as they combed the beaches and islands of southern Thailand Wednesday for missing tourists and locals swept away by this week's quake-tsunami ...
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Thousands of European tourists were begining their day with breakfast or by sunning themselves on Thailand&#39;s white sand beaches when massive waves triggered by an earthquake, swept people, bungalows, boats and cars out to sea.
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Scores of bodies were scattered on streets and among trees in a scene of horror on Tuesday after tidal waves ripped through the Thai tourist resort of Khao Lak.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Western holidaymakers -- especially Scandinavians -- bore the brunt of deadly tidal waves that hit Thailand, officials said Wednesday, as rescuers continued the horrific task of retrieving and identifying corpses.
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Rescue teams converged on beaches and remote islands in search of the missing today as authorities reported that more than 430 people, including a number of foreign tourists, were killed and 4,100 injured when earthquake-spawned tidal waves devastated
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Last evacuation flight from Thailand arrives in Helsinki The airlift of Finnish travellers from the Thai tourist resorts affected by the recent earthwquake-driven giant waveswas concluded on Sunday, when the ...
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STROMBOLI, Italy - Spectacular eruptions from the volcano on the southern Italian island of Stromboli may cause tidal waves, and all locals and tourists should stay away from the coast, ...Comment
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Reports were sketchy on the number of foreigners left dead, missing or injured following Sunday's Indonesian earthquake, which generated tidal waves that smashed into coastal areas throughout southern Asia and parts of Africa. The following list was compiled from foreign ministries, embassies and media reports:
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Only three days after the Indian Ocean tsunami swept over almost all the islands and atolls of the Maldives, tourists are once again willing to travel to the sparsely-populated
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Shocked European sunseekers began to trickle home from Asian resorts hit by massive tidal waves, as travel companies began to compile information on dead, injured and missing among their clients, and to bring survivors home.
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More than 4,000 overseas tourists from nations worldwide are missing three days after 10-meter (33 feet) waves swept through Asian resorts at the height of the vacation season.
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The world&#39;s largest earthquake for 40 years has swept a tidal wave across the Indian Ocean killings thousands in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and the Maldives.
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The earthquake-driven tidal wave that devastated coastlines from Asia to Africa registered in the Pacific Ocean as far away as the United States and the coast of South America, experts said Monday.
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Thousands of British tourists are stranded in south and east Asia after an earthquake sent massive waves flooding across the region.