Aid effort brings relief as tsunami toll hits 124,000
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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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GALLE: Stricken countries on the Indian Ocean worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of bodies as the the tsunami toll across asia reached 68,000 with more than 12,000 dead in India.
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The international community pledged more relief efforts for tsunami-devastated South and Southeast Asian countries Thursday as the death toll from the worst earthquake and tsunamis climbed to over 115,000.
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Colombo: The death toll in Sri Lanka went up to nearly 12,000 on Tuesday, two days after fierce tidal waves swamped its coastline.
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More than 12,300 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless after a powerful undersea earthquake unleashed giant tsunami waves that crashed into the coasts of south and southeast Asia.
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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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Heavy rains and fresh floods disrupted  aid to Asia's tsunami-hit villages on Sunday as the U.N.  refugee agency started a 400-ton airlift as part of a $2  billion relief operation to save millions struggling to  survive.
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MADRAS, 30 December 2004 - Humanitarian aid trickled in from across the world as reeking corpses rotted in the tropical sun from India to Indonesia yesterday and many who escaped death from one of the worst tsunamis in history fought for survival
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The death toll from massive tidal waves that struck Sri Lanka&#39;s coastline leapt to more than 12,000 on Monday as thousands of soldiers and families kept up the search for bodies.
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More aid arrives in communities devastated by the Asian tsunami, as the clean-up operation continues.
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THE international hand of help finally reached out to tsunami-devastated Asia yesterday as aftershocks put the region on nervous alert and the death toll from the Boxing Day disaster seemed certain to pass 100,000.
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The death toll from the Indian Ocean disaster rose dramatically to 125,000 after Indonesia said almost 80,000 had died in that country alone.
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Soldiers searched for bodies in  treetops, families wept over the dead laid on beaches and  rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia  counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that killed at least  14,425.
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Sri Lanka said on Tuesday the death toll from a tsunami that slammed into the Indian Ocean island rose to 12,212 people.
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The death toll from last weekend&#39;s earthquake-tsunami catastrophe rose to more than 114,000 on Thursday as Indonesia uncovered more and more dead from ravaged Sumatra island, where pilots dropped food to remote villages still unreached by rescue workers.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Desperate relief workers are struggling to get food and water to the millions of Asia&#39;s tsunami victims facing starvation and disease as the death toll passes 120,000, from what the UN has called &quot;an unprecedented global
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The massive global aid operation to help the victims of Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis in the Indian Ocean is beginning to deliver results.