Thai tsunami victims plagued by thieves
2016
Thieves disguised as police and rescue workers are preying on southern Thailand&#39;s Khao Lak beach, where the tsunami may have killed up to 3,000 people, witnesses said on Wednesday.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Foreign forensic experts  joined the desperate race to identify Thailand's tsunami  victims as the death toll and the number of missing mounted on  Thursday.
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Villages along the western coast of Aceh Province in Indonesia, where help was slow to arrive, appear to have suffered some of the worst losses in the tsunami.
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Foreign forensic experts have joined the desperate race to identify Thailand&#39;s tsunami victims as the death toll and the number of missing mounts and people give up hope of finding loved ones alive.
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BANGKOK -- On Jan. 3, when Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was making one of his many visits to the tsunami-devastated south, he stopped by a Buddhist temple in Takua Pa that had been turned into a morgue. He put on a powder-blue surgical mask and rubber gloves to tour the grounds. He gave a spirited pep talk to volunteers who ...
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They struggled to bury the dead and desperate residents looted shops on Indonesiaâs Sumatra Island today, where the earthquake and tsunamis killed up to 25,000 people, according to government estimates.
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Tsunami survivors in India's tropical Andaman Islands say looters have plundered their homes and robbed them of precious possessions.
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Thailand has started exhuming hundreds of bodies hastily buried in mass graves after the Indian Ocean tsunami in an effort to find out how many are among thousands reported missing, many of them foreign tourists.
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Foreign forensic experts have joined the desperate race to identify Thailand&#39;s tsunami victims as the death toll and the number of missing mount and people give up hope of finding loved ones alive.
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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 earthquake-powered tidal waves. Among them were more than 2,000 Scandinavians and 200 guests at a French-owned hotel.
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PHANG NGA, Thailand  - Thailand is to exhume  hundreds buried after the Indian Ocean tsunami, restarting the  arduous task of putting names to thousands of unidentified  bodies, including those of the many missing foreign tourists.
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At least two Australians are missing in Thailand&#39;s resort island of Phuket, which was one of the first inhabited regions hit by the tsunami.
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BANGKOK, Thailand  - The massive Asian tsunami  relief operation faces absolute chaos and "a wall of  devastation" in Indonesia as well as the threat of pirates  plundering aid, relief groups struggling to help thousands in  camps said on Monday.
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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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Authorities on Wednesday began burying Thailand's last 110 unidentified victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, a little more than two weeks ahead of the second anniversary of the disaster.
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While foreigners recover in the comfort of their home countries, many Thais have no homes left to return to.
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Sri Lanka and Thailand struggle to get their tourist industries back on track.