Red Cross: Asia storm toll may hit 1,000
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The top Red Cross official in the Philippines said Sunday that he thinks 1,000 people or more have been killed by Typhoon Durian.
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The death toll from last month's Indian Ocean tsunami disaster rose towards a quarter of a million while floods hampered relief efforts in worst-hit Indonesia's Aceh province.
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Almost 1,000 people have been killed and many more are missing after very bad storms in the Philippines. And more bad weather is on the way, with Typhoon Nanmadol already making it difficult for rescuers to help people left homeless by earlier storms.
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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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TOKYO, Japan -- The death toll from a powerful typhoon that struck Japan stands at 14 on Wednesday, with another 20 people missing.
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The death toll from Typhoon Saomai &#151; the strongest storm to hit China in 50 years &#151; rose to 114 Sunday as more evacuees died when buildings used as shelters collapsed, authorities said.
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A 1,000 people on board a Sri Lankan train perished when waves swept the carriages off the track in one of the biggest losses of life from the natural disaster that struck from Indonesia to Africa.
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BEIJING, Dec. 31 -- Swedish final death toll from the devastating tsunamis in southeastern Asia will be in the hundreds, and may even exceed 1,000.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations put  the latest death toll in Asia's tsunami at around 150,000 and  warned it could still soar as relief workers were confronted by  huge devastated areas without roads, bridges and airstrips.
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REAL, PHILIPPINES - Rescue and recovery operations are underway in the Philippines after a series of devastating storms left more than 1,000 people dead or missing.
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The most powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades raged across its southeastern coast Thursday, claiming at least 111 lives as it capsized ships, destroyed buildings and forced 1.5 million people from their homes.
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The Philippines asks for foreign aid as it assesses the impact of storms that have left 1,000 dead or missing.
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Flooding and landslides triggered by  Typhoon Xangsane have raised the death toll to more than 150 in  the past week from the storm that hit Vietnam and the  Philippines, officials said on Wednesday.
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The number of dead or missing totaled nearly 1,000 on Friday from the flash floods and landslides that have devastated a large section of the northern Philippines, rescue officials said.
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(Columbia) Dec. 30, 2004 - Officials now say more than 84,000 people are known dead with tens of thousands still missing. The Red Cross fears the overall death toll across eleven nations will top 100,000.
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The death toll in western Japan as a result of Typhoon Megi now stands at nine. The storm also brushed South Korea and is now predicted to make landfall in northern Japan on Friday.
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A new storm system approaching the Philippines is on track to become the second typhoon in 10 days to batter the archipelago, as the country struggles to recover from mudslides that left more than 1,000 people dead or missing, forecasters said Thursday.