Tsunami Toll Tops 175,000, New Threat Warning
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared past 175,000 Monday as Sri Lanka confirmed thousands  more dead, while fears re-emerged over the safety of aid  workers in Indonesia's shattered Aceh province.
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Thousands of bodies lay rotting and unidentified on lawns and streets of battered Sumatra island Wednesday and authorities called out bulldozers to dig mass graves, as the number killed in a mammoth earthquake and tsunami soared above 55,000 with tens of thousands still missing. The U.N. health agency warned that disease could double the toll yet again.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- With health officials warning that the death toll of more than 150,000 from last month's tsunami could jump sharply without a continual supply of aid, world leaders struggled yesterday to figure out the best way to help victims -- and to prevent such a catastrophe from happening again.
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The death toll from Sunday&#39;s quake-tsunami devastation rocketed to more than 120,000 on Thursday as workers uncovered more bodies from Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra island.
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The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Indian Ocean nations rose to nearly 220,000 with another 50,000 deaths being reported by Indonesia's health ministry.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared above 125,000 on Friday as millions struggled to find  food and clean water and persistent rumors of new giant waves  sent many fleeing inland in panic.
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Torrential rains have driven more than 175,000 people from their homes in Sri Lanka, authorities said.
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The death toll in the massive tsunamis triggered by a magnitude 8.7 earthquake in South and Southeast Asia on Sunday has reached over 55,000.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - An army of aid workers  raced on Tuesday to deliver food and water to millions of  tsunami victims and the U.N. warned a death toll of 150,000  would climb as more bodies are found and disease stalks  survivors.
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The frantic search for hundreds of Britons missing following the tsunami continued yesterday as the official death toll rose to 28.
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Sri Lanka's government said on Tuesday  more than 18,700 people are confirmed dead two days after a  tsunami battered the island and officials fear the toll will  hit 25,000.
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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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The death toll in the killer tsunami tidal waves Monday rose rapidly to over 16,000 across South and South East Asia. In Sri Lanka, at least 5,880 people died in the huge
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared above 125,000 and aid agencies warned many more people  -- particularly children -- could die in epidemics, ushering in  a somber New Year's Eve for the world.
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The tsunami death toll in Malaysia has risen to 66 as of midnight Wednesday, a spokesman of the Malaysian Control Center in the federal police headquarters said Thursday morning.
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Colombo: The death toll in the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka reached 12,000, including at least 70 foreigners while many were reported still missing as rescuers on Monday frantically searched for survivors and engaged in reaching aid and medical care for
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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.