Race to Bury Asia's Dead as Toll Hits 63,000
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Stricken countries on the  Indian Ocean worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of  bodies as experts warned disease could kill as many people as  the 63,000 already dead from the violent crush of Sunday's  tsunami.
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Decaying corpses are piling up in Indonesia&#39;s Aceh province, where up to 10,000 people are feared dead as a result of Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared above 125,000 on Friday as millions struggled to find  food and clean water and the world mobilized for what is  shaping up to be the biggest relief effort in history.
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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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At least 124,000 people have been confirmed dead in the Asian tsunami disaster as the effort to deliver relief supplies to the millions affected by the giant wave gathers pace.
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THE death toll in a coal mine explosion in central China has risen to 63, with 103 miners still missing. The Government said yesterday an underground fire and toxic fumes from the blast hampered rescue work.
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Soldiers searched for bodies in  treetops, families wept over the dead lined up on beaches and  rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia  counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that killed up to  14,425.
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We believe that death toll is now between 600 and 800 in Thailand, but there appear to be hundreds of people missing. In Phang Nga, 100km north of Phuket, local authorities are saying that bodies are lying
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Aircraft, naval vessels  and trucks struggled on Friday to deliver aid around stricken  southern Asia as the death toll exceeded 124,000 from a  devastating tsunami that darkened the world's New Year.
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As the world scrambled to the rescue, survivors fought over packs of noodles in quake-stricken Indonesian streets Wednesday while relief supplies piled up at the airport for lack of cars, gas or passable roads to move them. The official death toll across 12 countries soared to near 77,000 and the Red Cross predicted it could pass 100,000.
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Nations on the Indian Ocean from  Indonesia to Sri Lanka searched among the wreckage of a  devastating tsunami for bodies to bury on Tuesday as fears grew  the toll would far exceed the 29,000 now reported killed.
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Aided by massive relief efforts and fortitude, victims of Sunday&#39;s deadly tsunamis struggled to pick up the pieces in the face of untold devastation as India&#39;s human toll Wednesday raced toward a shocking 12,000.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll in Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster ticked relentlessly upward to top 125,000 as clocks ticked down to a desolate new year in countries struggling to get food and water to millions facing starvation and disease.
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The confirmed death toll in Asia, after Sunday&#39;s massive earthquake and tsunamis, has surged past 125,000. Indonesia which bore the brunt of the catastrophe, has updated its toll to almost 80,000 with entire coastal villages washed away.
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The final death toll from Thailand&#39;s tidal wave disaster could approach 6,800, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has suggested, as European nations joined Thais in trying to trace thousands of missing people.
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AFTERSHOCKS and fears of renewed tidal waves continued to terrorise residents of South and South-east Asia yesterday as millions searched for loved ones and buried their dead after Sunday&#39;s massive quake and tsunamis.
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Rescue workers dug through the ruins of this tsunami-devastated town in search of bodies Thursday, as frightened locals woke up from a third night spent in hillside camps overlooking the sea. The death toll stood at 531, with more than 270 missing.