Tsunami death toll reaches 22,000
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The carnage from an earthquake-driven tidal wave that devastated coastlines from Asia to Africa doubled to more than 22,000 dead yesterday
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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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The death toll from the tsunami disaster doubled again today, soaring towards the 100,000 mark.
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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 from this week's tsunami on the main Indonesian island of Java rose to 654, as the beachside resorts hardest hit began slowly moving back towards normalcy.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The global death toll  from the Asian tsunami shot above 226,000 Wednesday after  Indonesia's Health Ministry confirmed the deaths of tens of  thousands of people previously listed as missing.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Some 150,000 people are  now known to have been killed by Asia's tsunami, U.N. officials  said on Monday, as helicopters and elephants were used to find  and feed survivors and shift the rubble of razed towns.
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Bodies washed up on tropical beaches and piled up in hospitals Monday, raising fears of disease across a 10-nation arc of destruction left by a monster earthquake and walls of water that killed more than 22,000 people. Thousands were missing and millions homeless.
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At least 67 people have been killed and 70 others reported missing after a tsunami smashed into the south of Indonesia&#039;s Java island following an undersea earthquake, local television reported.
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The toll in Sunday&#39;s earthquake-induced tsunamis continued to mount on Tuesday with latest figures indicating nearly 7,400 deaths in India and over 20,000 in six countries across South and South East Asia.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - Rescuers scoured the sea for  missing tourists in Asia Monday and fears of disease grew as  emergency services struggled with rotting bodies from a  devastating tsunami that killed more than 22,000 people.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka -- Bodies stacked up in hospitals and on beaches Monday, raising fears of disease in an arc of destruction left by a monster earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 22,500 people.
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The death toll of Americans from the tsunami more than doubled Wednesday, to 36, as the State Department announced 20 other U.S. citizens were presumed dead. Thousands more are missing.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll in the  Indian Ocean tsunami disaster soared above 125,000 on Thursday  as millions scrambled for food and clean water and rumors of  new waves sent many fleeing inland in panic.
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At least 140,339 people are reported dead around southern Asia and as far away as Somalia on Africa's eastern coast, most killed by massive tsunamis that smashed coastlines on Dec. 26. The United Nations estimates the total number of dead will exceed 150,000.
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(Indianapolis-December 28, 2004) - The number of confirmed deaths from the tsunamis in South Asia is now more than 52,000. As that number continues to climb, efforts to reach out are gearing up here in Indianapolis.