Asia Quake Deaths Pass 80,000; Agencies Fight Disease
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Relief agencies struggled to rush aid to more than 3 million people in Africa and Asia who lack food and medicine as the number of fatalities from the weekend&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis
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The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that disease in the aftermath of southern Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster could kill as many people as the deadly waves and earthquake have.
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The confirmed death toll in Asia, after Sunday&#39;s massive earthquake and tsunamis, has surged past 125,000. Indonesia which bore the brunt of the catastrophe, has updated its toll to almost 80,000 with entire coastal villages washed away.
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THE international hand of help finally reached out to tsunami-devastated Asia yesterday as aftershocks put the region on nervous alert and the death toll from the Boxing Day disaster seemed certain to pass 100,000.
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At least 84,099 people were killed in 11 countries in southern Asia and Africa from Sunday's massive earthquake and tsunami waves, according to official figures. A breakdown of the toll so far:
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The death toll from a series of powerful earthquakes in central Japan has reached 18, with more than 800 injured. The biggest quake measured 6.8 on the Richter scale.
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Aid agencies and governments scrambled yesterday to mount an emergency operation aimed at averting epidemics of typhoid, hepatitis and cholera across southern Asia, as the death toll from the Indian Ocean ...
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Latest reports indicate that over 7,000 people have died as a result of a devastating earthquake that hit Southeast Asia early this morning.
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Officials in Indonesia say the number of people killed there is now nearly 80,000 and the death toll from around the area is set to rise still higher.
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Legions of rescuers spread across Asia Monday after an earthquake of epic power struck deep beneath the Indian Ocean, unleashing 20-foot tidal waves that ravaged coasts across thousands of miles and killed at ...
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Asia News, BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Indonesia&#39;s death toll from the weekend&#39;s earthquake and tsunami soared past 32,500 on Wednesday as rescuers worked to make contact with devastated cities and towns in the hardest hit areas.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world poured money  into tsunami-battered Asia on Saturday, as aid workers, troops  and grieving locals worked frantically to bury thousands of  rotting corpses and help millions threatened by disease.
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Dozens of casualties are reported from tidal waves and earth tremors in southern and eastern Asia.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared above 125,000 on Friday as millions struggled to find  food, shelter and clean water, while the world began what may  prove to be the biggest relief effort in history.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia's death toll  from the weekend's earthquake and tsunami soared past 32,500 on  Wednesday as rescuers worked to make contact with devastated  cities and towns in the hardest hit areas.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll in Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster ticked relentlessly upward to top 125,000 as clocks ticked down to a desolate new year in countries struggling to get food and water to millions facing starvation and disease.
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The confirmed number of people killed in the massive undersea earthquake and resulting tsunamis that hit Indian Ocean shorelines has exceeded 80,000, and there are warnings it could rise to 100,000.