Criminals Prey on Tsunami Victims Across the World
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Thieves, rapists, kidnappers and  hoaxers are preying on tsunami survivors and families of  victims in Asian refugee camps, hospitals and in the home  countries of European tourists hit by the wave.
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The FBI today warned that a variety of online scams asking users to send money for the victims of the recent tsunami disaster have popped up online in the past week.
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The tsunami disaster has triggered a popular response worldwide that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, from inmates pledging funds behind bars and children selling their Christmas presents.
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The area in South Asia devastated by powerful tidal waves is popular with tourists attracted to the beaches and diving.
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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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NEW DELHI: Parts of Southeast Asia that bore the brunt of the killer tsunami happens to be one of the most-popular vacation spots.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Among the legions of traumatized Sri Lankan fishermen whose lives were ravaged by the tsunami are many who are not sure they can go back to the simple lives they and their families once led by the sea.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND -- A statesman, a supermodel and a skier were among the vacationers whose search for some peace and sun in tropical southern Asia was ripped apart by the horror of the massive earthquake and tsunami waves that tore through the region
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Distraught relatives and friends of those missing after the most catastrophic tsunami on record are increasingly turning to the Internet to search for loved ones.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - Interpol and 20 national  police forces launched history's biggest disaster victim  identification system Tuesday to unravel the mesh of forensic  data from the bodies of more than 5,000 tsunami dead in  Thailand.
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TORONTO - The disappearance of hundreds of Western tourists in Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster has demonstrated - in a tragic fashion â-ow interconnected the world has become.
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Almost a month after the tsunami hit, huge numbers of bodies are still being found, and the recovery effort is becoming more complex each day.
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A day after a series of devastating tsunamis swept over the coconut palms fringing the beaches of this Southeast Asian island, rescue workers continued to extract bodies from a landscape of waste -- from collapsed buildings, and from the shores, where each incoming tide deposited a fresh harvest of dead.
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Thieves disguised as police and rescue workers are preying on southern Thailand&#39;s Khao Lak beach, where the tsunami may have killed up to 3,000 people, witnesses said on Wednesday.
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As more and more bodies are being swept ashore, the death toll due to Sundayâs tsunami waves is rising fast along the south-eastern coast and the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Foreign forensic experts  joined the desperate race to identify Thailand's tsunami  victims as the death toll and the number of missing mounted on  Thursday and people gave up hope of finding loved ones alive.
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MEDAN, Indonesia -- These are the lucky ones. Fate sent them to the crumbling wards of the Pirngadi General Hospital instead of to their graves. Here, where many victims with the most complicated injuries from the Dec. 26 tsunami were evacuated, survivors embark on daunting recoveries.