Thailand Begins Exhuming Tsunami Dead
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Thailand has started exhuming hundreds of bodies hastily buried in mass graves after the Indian Ocean tsunami in an effort to find out how many are among thousands reported missing, many of them foreign tourists.
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Foreign forensic experts have joined the desperate race to identify Thailand&#39;s tsunami victims as the death toll and the number of missing mounts and people give up hope of finding loved ones alive.
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KHAO LAK, THAILAND - Emergency crews in Thailand struggled Tuesday to identify hundreds of tourists killed when a tsunami roared through southern resorts - even as an endless stream of trucks delivered new bodies.
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as a temporary mortuary, as a truck pulled in with another load of bloated Thai and foreign bodies. peak of the Christmas and New Year tourist season.
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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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Preparations are being made to repatriate the bodies of seven Australians killed in the tsunamis in Thailand. Foreign Affairs officials say they have serious concerns for a further nine missing Australians.
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Identifying human remains found in the disaster zone grows trickier.
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Thailand says it will look for bodies for at least five more days, as international teams start to scour the sea.
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The first coffins with dead Swedish tourists are being flown back to the capital, Stockholm, from Thailand following the Asian tsunami disaster.
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BANGKOK : The confirmed death toll in Thailand&#39;s tsunami disaster on Friday rose to 4,541, including 2,230 foreigners. There were 2,128 Thai victims and 183 bodies whose race could not be determined, said
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PHUKET, Thailand  - A week after a deadly tsunami  swept away thousands of lives along Thailand's tropical  coastline, people prayed for the victims in special church  services Sunday and spoke of putting the tragedy behind them.
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Mass funerals were underway in Sri Lanka yesterday as volunteers pulled decomposed corpses from washed out trains, cars and smashed buildings.
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Rescue workers in the Philippines began burying landslide victims in a mass grave on Sunday, as the Red Cross said that more than 1,000 people had probably died in the disaster.
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Thailand will next week begin burying 513 bodies of tsunami victims that have gone unclaimed or unidentified nearly two years after the catastrophe.
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A Thai medic sprays disinfectant over the rotting corpses of those killed in Sunday&#39;s tidal waves at a Buddhist temple in Pang-Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
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The bodies of six Swedes killed by the tsunami are sent home from Thailand, with many more expected later.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - Thai police on Monday ordered  families and friends of foreigners to stay away from  tsunami-hit areas, including Buddhist temples turned temporary  morgues where they have searched for missing loved ones.