Bodies Piled on Asian Coasts After Tsunami Kills 22,700
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - Rescuers scoured the sea for  missing tourists and fishermen in Asia Monday and fears of  disease grew as emergency services struggled with rotting  bodies from a devastating tsunami that killed more than 22,700  people.
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The magnitude of the tsunami that killed tens of thousands and remade the coasts of the Asian subcontinent was slowly gauged across the world.
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Indian Ocean nations from Indonesia to  Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury their dead and  get water and other emergency supplies to survivors of a  tsunami that killed more than 23,200 people.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - Rescuers scoured the sea for  missing tourists in Asia Monday and fears of disease grew as  emergency services struggled with rotting bodies from a  devastating tsunami that killed more than 22,000 people.
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COLOMBO, DEC 27: The death toll in a tsunami that slammed into coasts from India to Indonesia topped 21,000 on Monday as rescuers scoured the sea for missing tourists and soldiers raced to recover bodies amid growing fears of disease.
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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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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 at least 12,600.
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At least 162,735 people have been reported dead around southern Asia and as far away as Somalia on Africa's eastern coast from an earthquake and massive tsunami that smashed coastlines on Dec. 26.
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At least 22 people were killed and several missing after landslides triggered by heavy rains buried hillside homes in Bangladesh's Chittagong port city on Monday, police and witnesses said.
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At last 150 people were killed after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Andaman islands in the Indian Ocean struck Sri Lanka on Sunday, district officials said.
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The official death toll from last weekend's tsunami disaster is approaching 150,000 with most of the victims in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
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The official death toll in India from a massive tsunami that crashed into coastal communities has reached 8,955 while 3,874 more people were missing and presumed dead, the government said.
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Indian Ocean nations 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 26,000 people reported killed.
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Rescuers piled up bodies along southern Asian coastlines devastated by tidal waves that obliterated seaside towns and killed more than 22,000 people in nine countries, and officials indicated Monday the death toll could climb far higher.
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Indian officials said on Tuesday at least 7,000 people were feared dead in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands after a tsunami hit at the weekend.
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LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia (CP) - Rescue workers battled to reach isolated coastal towns Tuesday on the Indonesian island Sumatra, nearest the epicentre of the monstrous earthquake that sent tsunami waves surging through the region, killing at least 23,700.
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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 Monday of a tsunami that killed more than  15,500.