Thailand evacuates holiday survivors
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Thailand struggled on Monday to evacuate thousands of traumatized foreign tourists from its once thriving holiday island of Phuket and other popular islands and beach resorts devastated by Sunday&#39;s tidal wave.
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Hundreds of tourists are flocking to Colombo for relief and shelter after being evacuated from disaster hit areas across the country.
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International teams and more than 13,000 Thais were mounting the country&#39;s largest ever rescue and relief operation Thursday, racing against time to both hunt for the missing and identify hundreds, possibly thousands, of rapidly
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[World News]: Johannesburg, Dec 30 : A rescue mission to Thailand Wednesday brought home 68 South African survivors of the tsunami that has devastated the Southeast and South Asian coastlines.
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Twenty-seven people are injured in blasts in Thailand's insurgency-hit south, ahead of the New Year holiday.
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Tens of thousands of residents fled tsunami-battered coasts in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand after warnings of possible new killer waves yesterday.
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International and Thai volunteers, including prison inmates, are still searching for survivors. Locals complain that rescue workers are only looking after tourists.
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BANGKOK  - Some 4,086 people are listed as missing in Thailand after tidal waves struck six southern provinces at the weekend, the interior ministry said.
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Phi Phi Island, Thailand  - Rescue workers  recovered more than 300 bodies on Thailand's remote Phi Phi  Island on Tuesday, two days after a series of powerful waves  devastated the tourist paradise.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - As a clean up operation  finally gets into gear in this devastated Thai fishing village,  some of the survivors complain that the authorities gave  priority to foreign tourists rather than them.
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Vietnam is evacuating hundreds of thousands of people along its central coast and has halted flights to the region ahead of Typhoon Xangsane's landfall, which is expected late on Saturday or early on Sunday, officials said.
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As ash from cremation fires drifted through the air around the devastated beach resort of Khao Lak last night, Thai soldiers unloaded numbered bodybags from a lorry at a graveyard in Bangmuang.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - Thai police on Monday ordered  families and friends of foreigners to stay away from  tsunami-hit areas, including Buddhist temples turned temporary  morgues where they have searched for missing loved ones.
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Between 200 and 300 expatriates were expected to have been flown out of the west African state by tonight after the British army was called in to evacuate them.
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A Thai medic sprays disinfectant over the rotting corpses of those killed in Sunday&#39;s tidal waves at a Buddhist temple in Pang-Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
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Nordic countries are praising Thailand as survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami return home with tales of the compassion and generosity shown to holidaymakers after the disaster.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND -- A statesman, a supermodel and a skier were among the vacationers whose search for some peace and sun in tropical southern Asia was ripped apart by the horror of the massive earthquake and tsunami waves that tore through the region