Number of Dead in South Asia Reaches 40,000
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The number of dead as a result of the 9.0 earthquake that occurred off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, 40 kilometers under the Indian Ocean, has reached 40,000.
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Jakarta - The confirmed number of people killed in the massive earthquake and tidal waves that struck Indian Ocean shorelines at the weekend passed 60 000 on Wednesday, amid warnings the true toll could be far higher.
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SRI Lanka said today deaths in the island&#39;s rebel-controlled north and east had raised the death toll from the worst tsunami in memory to around 4500.
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AT least 4300 people, mostly children and the elderly, were today confirmed dead and many more were missing in Sri Lanka after tsunami waves smashed into the island.
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At least 140,339 people are reported dead around southern Asia and as far away as Somalia on Africa's eastern coast, most killed by massive tsunamis that smashed coastlines on Dec. 26. The United Nations estimates the total number of dead will exceed 150,000.
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The number of Americans known to have been killed in the devastating tsunami has risen to 11 and hundreds remain unaccounted for, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday, as the death toll across Asia approached 40,000 people
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The confirmed number of people killed in the massive earthquake and giant waves that struck Indian Ocean shorelines at the weekend passed 60,000 Wednesday, though experts warned the true toll could be far higher.
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NEW DELHI/JAKARTA/NEW YORK - The death toll in the tsunamis that ripped across Southeast and South Asia climbed above 24,000 on Tuesday as emergency and government officials said two days after the disaster that they feared the number of victims would
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Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia in the aftermath of Asia&#39;s devastating tsunamis, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to around 44,000.
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Death of opposition leader raises fears of expanded violence in the unstable South Asian nation.
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GUWAHATI, India : Forty-four people were killed and 118 wounded in a spate of attacks in India&#39;s remote northeast, police said, in one of the deadliest eruptions of violence in the revolt-racked region in years.
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At least 40 passengers were feared  dead in southern India on Monday after a bus fell into a canal,  police said.
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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to around 44,000.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The world's biggest  earthquake in 40 years hit south Asia Sunday, unleashing a  tsunami that crashed into Sri Lanka and India and swamped  tourist isles in Thailand and the Maldives, killing more than  6,300 people.
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The world&#39;s biggest earthquake in 40 years hit southern Asia on Sunday, unleashing a tsunami that crashed into Sri Lanka and India, drowning thousands and swamping tourist isles in Thailand and the Maldives.
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COLOMBO A military spokesman raised the estimated number of deaths in Sri Lanka caused by devastating waves by more than 5,000 people on Monday, increasing estimates of the death toll from the regional catastrophe to more than 20,000 people.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - The number of people killed in  Asia's tsunami disaster soared past 175,000 Monday after Sri  Lanka raised its death toll, while Denmark warned of possible  terror attacks against aid workers in Indonesia