Tsunami-Ruined City Still a Graveyard
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In the ruins of this Sumatran city, French soldiers and local men scoop buckets of water from a filthy canal, passing them hand to hand down a line of 30 people trying to douse a smoky fire in a pile of rubble. Nearby, another blaze consumes a wooden boat lying in a street a half mile from the shore.
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Nations on the Indian Ocean from  Indonesia to Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury  their dead and help the survivors of a tsunami as fears grew  the final toll would far exceed the 27,700 people reported  killed.
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Rescuers in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar isles are struggling to assess the tsunami toll in areas untouched by the modern world.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand -- Miles of tsunami-shattered beach hotels on the Thai mainland north of Phuket island began yielding up their dead yesterday, bloated gashed, and mangled bodies.
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Two days after a tsunami battered  Indian Ocean coastlines, hundreds of foreign tourists are still  missing or unaccounted for.
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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to more than 52,000.
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The main hospital in the district hardest hit by Indonesia&#039;s killer earthquake is running short of blood and splints. Victims cram corridors and the parking lot, sleeping on scraps of cardboard, some waiting an entire day for care.
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HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka -- For generations, this southern port town has heralded the year's passing with firecrackers and all-night celebrations. But as the sun set yesterday, the air was heavy with despair: Sri Lanka was mourning its tsunami victims.
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Sri Lankans trying to come to terms  with piles of corpses left by a tsunami may never know the  actual death toll because of the disaster's unprecedented  scale, different methods of counting and the politics of an  ethnic war.
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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to around 44,000.
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Soldiers searched for bodies in  treetops, families wept over the dead laid on beaches and  rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia  counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that killed more than  15,500.
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Efforts are continuing in Sri Lanka to bury the thousands of dead from Sunday's sea surges.
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Sweden, still mourning its citizens lost in the tsunami, is grappling with a tragedy with no familiar coordinates.
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COLOMBO: Mass funerals were underway in Sri Lanka as the death toll from the tidal wave disaster neared 12,000 with decomposed bodies pulled from washed out trains, cars and devastated buildings, officials said.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- With workers still finding bodies under mud-caked rubble a month after a tsunami, Indonesia's Health Ministry revised its casualty count yesterday, lowering confirmed deaths to 96,000 but raising the number of missing, and presumed dead, to 132,000.
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Haunting images of the tsunami's aftermath attracted both aid and criticism.
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Three weeks after the Asian tsunami, people near and far paused to remember the dead but hundreds of bodies rotting by the sea showed how much still has to be done to make life bearable for survivors.