Toll From Tsunami Rises to Nearly 40,000
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Devastated coastal areas across South Asia struggled today to prevent hunger and outbreaks of disease as dazed survivors searched desperately for the missing two days after a tsunami surged across the region.
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Indonesia's Health Ministry raised the country's death toll from the Dec. 26 tsunami to 166,320 Wednesday, pushing the total number of people killed in the disaster around the region above 225,000.
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Nearly 220,000 people are confirmed dead in the Asian tsunami after Indonesia raises its toll dramatically.
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Indonesia's health ministry puts the number of people killed by the tsunami at more than 166,000.
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The number of Americans known to  have been killed in the devastating tsunami has risen to 11 and  hundreds remain unaccounted for, Secretary of State Colin  Powell said on Tuesday, as the death toll across Asia  approached 40,000 people.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared above 125,000 on Thursday as millions scrambled for food  and clean water and rumors of new giant waves sent many fleeing  inland in panic.
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The number of Americans known to have been killed in the devastating tsunami has risen to 11 and hundreds remain unaccounted for, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday, as the death toll across Asia approached 40,000 people
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The mercilessness of Asia&#39;s tsunami grew clearer on Thursday as worst hit Indonesia sharply raised its death toll, taking the number of fatalities around the whole Indian Ocean region above 120,000.
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The toll of Americans presumed dead in the South Asian tsunami has more than doubled as the State Department announced Wednesday that 20 more people were added to the list of those known previously to have perished.
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The Asian tsunami disaster is now known to have claimed 40 British lives, with dozens more still unaccounted for.
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Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said on Wednesday the death toll from the weekend quake and tsunami had reached as high as 40,000 people.
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The Australian death toll in Asia&#39;s tsunamis has risen to six and 11 others still missing are feared dead, the government said yesterday.
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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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The death toll rose above 14,000 after an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the world&#39;s biggest in four decades, caused tsunami waves that devastated coastal towns from Thailand to India.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia's death toll  from the weekend's tsunami soared past 27,000 on Wednesday, but  was expected to climb higher with many bodies still buried  under mud and rubble.
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THE sea and wreckage of coastal towns all around the Indian Ocean yielded up tens of thousands of bodies today, pushing the toll from Sunday&#39;s tsunami past 59,000.
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More aid from the international community poured into tsunami-devastated south Asian coastal nations on Wednesday as death toll from the catastrophe climbed toover 65,000 and concerns grew over epidemic outbreaks.