Asia Tsunami Death Toll Soars Past 77,000
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An uprooted tree lies on the beach as damaged buildings of Indian Air Force officers, where more than 100 people reportedly were killed by tidal waves, is seen in background, in Nicobar, in India&#39;s southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Wednesday, Dec.
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Rescue workers have pulled corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India, and the government has warned the death toll of almost 7,400 from a tsunami that lashed the country&#39;s south will rise further.
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Nations on the Indian Ocean from  Indonesia to Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury  their dead and help the survivors of a tsunami as fears grew  the final toll would far exceed the 27,700 people reported  killed.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll in the  Indian Ocean tsunami disaster soared above 125,000 on Thursday  as millions scrambled for food and clean water and rumors of  new waves sent many fleeing inland in panic.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in the  earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Asia has topped 6,300,  officials and local media said Sunday.
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The death toll from last month's Indian Ocean tsunami disaster rose towards a quarter of a million while floods hampered relief efforts in worst-hit Indonesia's Aceh province.
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Geneva - The death toll from tidal waves that struck nine Indian Ocean countries has risen to 23 700, the International Red Cross said on Monday.
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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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Thousands of people are still missing in Asia, Natasha Brown reports. South Asia tsunami death toll approaches 60,000, Lou Young reports.
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Flooding killed dozens of people in the  days after Typhoon Xangsane raked the Philippines and Vietnam,  officials said on Thursday as the combined death toll rose to  at least 169 with 79 others missing.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared above 125,000 on Friday as millions struggled to find  food, shelter and clean water, while the world began what may  prove to be the biggest relief effort in history.
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MASS funerals of thousands of tsunami victims got underway today in Sri Lanka as the death toll from the weekend&#39;s devastation surged to 17,640.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia's death toll  from the weekend's tsunami soared past 27,000 on Wednesday, but  was expected to climb higher with many bodies still buried  under mud and rubble.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The death toll from the massive tsunami that devastated the coastlines of Southeast Asia and Eastern Africa climbed to 52,000 Tuesday, as Indonesia (search) raised the number of dead in that country alone to 27,000.
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Asia News, BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Indonesia&#39;s death toll from the weekend&#39;s earthquake and tsunami soared past 32,500 on Wednesday as rescuers worked to make contact with devastated cities and towns in the hardest hit areas.
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Thousands of bodies were found in the devastated west coast of Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra island Wednesday, increasing the death toll across 12 nations to more than 76,700.