A Quest for Victims on Inundated Coast
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Two weeks after the event, the number and location of the tsunami's survivors in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, remain a mystery. The IRC, like other relief groups, is moving ahead on the assumption that its efforts will find, or attract, people who need help.
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A Fiji islander frets about rising sea levels, while villagers cope with the destruction of mangrove swamps in India, and a Nepalese Sherpa fears his mountain valley will be flooded by melting glacier runoff high in the
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MEULABOH, Indonesia -- In town after town, the scene was the same from the helicopter taking one of the first glimpses of Sumatra's ravaged coast: whole villages ripped apart, covered in mud and sea water. The only signs of life were a few desperate people scavenging a beach for food.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Jun. 20--A coastal community can never have too many qualified lifesavers on the beach.
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REAL, Philippines -- Rescuers are battling to reach thousands of people left stranded in the Philippines, where storms have left 1,000 people dead or missing.
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Efforts have been intensified in the search for the 36 people still missing following a Yellow River boating accident on Thursday morning in Linyi County of north China&#39;s
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Tsunami survivors were trying to rebuild their shattered lives on Friday as aid agencies scrambled to reach some 5 million people affected by the most wide-reaching natural disaster in living memory.
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Survivors and rescuers battle the devastation left by sea surges that killed more than 20,000 on Asia's shores.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Most of those killed or missing in Thailand&#39;s tidal wave disaster were Western holidaymakers, officials said, as rescuers pressed on with the horrific task of retrieving and identifying corpses.
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The full scale of the catastrophe around the shores of the Indian Ocean is only slowly emerging. The death toll rises by tens of thousands each day, with the prospect that it could redouble
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Rescuers today scoured flood-ravaged coasts across Asia in the aftermath of a massive earthquake that killed at least 13,300 and left thousands of British holidaymakers stranded.
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Rescue workers stepped up the hunt Friday for victims of landslides and floods that claimed scores of lives on Indonesia's Java island and left thousands homeless, an official said.
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Villagers and rescue teams searched for survivors on an Indonesian island hit by floods and landslides Thursday as the death toll climbed to 178, officials said.
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Rescuers with listening devices sensitive enough to pick up a whimper or a faint tapping searched on Tuesday for victims feared buried in a mudslide that sent a thunderous cascade of trees and dirt onto this seaside hamlet.
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MEULABOH, Indonesia -- A week after an earthquake and tsunami ripped through this city, a woman picks her way over a mountain of debris searching for something to feed her chicken. A man carries a salvaged carpet on his back. People sweep flooded foyers, just a few yards away from where a dead man wrapped in aluminum siding lies by ...
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The Indian Ocean region starts to assess the damage wrought by sea surges that killed about 23,000 people.
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REAL, Philippines : Rescuers were desperately searching for survivors Tuesday after floods and landslides unleashed by a tropical storm in the Philippines killed more than 300 people and left at least 150 others missing, many buried alive under tonnes of