Scale of tsunami horror emerges
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Aid workers reaching remote areas of Indonesia's Aceh province discover the extent of the tsunami's devastation.
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Indian Ocean states from Indonesia to Sri Lanka scrambled on Tuesday to cope with the widespread devastation of a tsunami that killed over 23,000 people and could claim more lives through disease and privation.
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A questioning of survivors has provided the most precise look to date at the tsunami's effects on the people living in the worst-hit part of the worst-hit country.
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The Red Cross says the death toll from one of the worst tsunamis in history could top 100,000, as more bodies are found from India to Indonesia.
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Up to 5 million people around the Indian Ocean are waiting for food and clean water as nations hit by one of the biggest tsunamis on record
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Massive tsunamis triggered by the largest earthquake to shake the planet in more than 40 years wiped out coastal areas across Asia as far as 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) away, killing more than 11,000 people.
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International teams of forensic scientists have begun the grim task of identifying victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis. The gruesome job of identifying victims has been made all the more daunting by the sheer number of bodies piling up in morgues.
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Haunting images of the tsunami's aftermath attracted both aid and criticism.
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Indonesia's tsunami nightmare continued with a death toll surpassing 79,000 on flattened coastlines as panic stirred lawlessness and vital aid slowly reached the sick and hungry.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - 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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GALLE, Sri Lanka -- Bodies stacked up in hospitals and on beaches Monday, raising fears of disease in an arc of destruction left by a monster earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 22,500 people.
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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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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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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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PORT BLAIR, DECEMBER 30: The tsunami death toll might not have been as astronomical as it was thought to be in the Andaman and Nicobar Islandsâthe numbers have begun to decrease as dramatically as it climbed.
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Witness accounts after huge waves triggered by an earthquake devastated Asia.
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The full scale of the impact of the tsunami disaster on the United Kingdom was disclosed yesterday when the Foreign Office said that about 200 Britons were feared dead.