U.N. agency: 30 drowned off Yemen coast
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At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants trying to reach the Arabian peninsula drowned when their boat capsized off Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday, citing Yemeni officials.
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A total of 22,493 people have been confirmed killed in Sri Lanka by a tsunami and the number is rising, the government said on Wednesday, forecasting the toll could pass the 30,000 mark.
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At least 139,580 people are reported dead around southern Asia and eastern Africa, most killed by massive tsunamis that smashed coastlines after a magnitude 9 earthquake off Indonesia's coast Dec. 26. The United Nations estimates the total number of dead will exceed 150,000, while Thailand predicted its toll will hit 8,000.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - More than 550 people are  dead in Haiti from flooding and mudslides triggered by Tropical  Storm Jeanne and aid workers said half of the northern coastal  city of Gonaives was still underwater on Monday.
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The Asian tsunami disaster is now known to have claimed 29 British lives, with dozens more Britons still missing.
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An estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Somalis need immediate relief aid in coastal towns hit by waves whipped up by the Asian earthquake, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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Nations on the Indian Ocean from Indonesia to Sri Lanka searched amongst the wreckage of a devastating Tsunami for bodies to bury today as fears grew the toll would exceed the 29,000 now reported killed.
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Nearly 60 people were killed as tidal waves struck Myanmar&#39;s southern coastal and delta regions and the death toll is expected to increase, according to reports compiled by international aid agencies Tuesday.
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At least 50 people have died and 150 are missing in Haiti after tropical storm Jeanne swept across the island of Hispaniola, a UN spokesman says .
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At least 40 people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy rains on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores, and dozens more are still missing, officials said Saturday.
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The Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers say that fighting on Thursday has left more than 30 dead.
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Rescuers were anxious to discover the fate of 30,000 people unaccounted for in India's Andaman and Nicobar islands as the nationwide death toll from weekend tidal waves reached nearly 7,000.
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At least 3,000 people died in the Andaman and Nicobar islands and 30,000 people are missing after five villages in the archipelago's south were swept away by a tsunami, officials said.
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Twenty-two would-be immigrants drowned and 42 were missing after a boat that was to have carried them across the Mediterranean broke up and sank off the Tunisian coast at the weekend, according to official figures.
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The number of dead as a result of the 9.0 earthquake that occurred off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, 40 kilometers under the Indian Ocean, has reached 30,000.
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A total of 22,493 people have been  confirmed killed in Sri Lanka by a tsunami and the number is  rising, the government said on Wednesday, forecasting the toll  could pass the 30,000 mark.
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Tens of thousands of people have probably died in Indonesia's western Sumatra and Aceh Province or will perish before relief workers can reach them, a senior U.N. official said Monday.