Tsunami Death Toll Rises to 76,700
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Pyres of victims who were killed by tidal waves burn on the beach at Alappad, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in a tsunami  that slammed into coasts from India to Indonesia topped 21,000  on Monday as rescuers scoured the sea for missing tourists and  soldiers raced to recover bodies amid growing fears of disease.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - The sea and wreckage of  coastal towns around the Indian Ocean yielded up tens of  thousands of bodies on Tuesday, pushing the toll from Sunday's  tsunami close to 60,000.
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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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Donations by Britons to the victims of the south Asian tidal wave disaster now total 76 million pounds, charities said.
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Rescuers were anxious to discover the fate of 30,000 people unaccounted for in India's Andaman and Nicobar islands as the nationwide death toll from weekend tidal waves reached nearly 7,000.
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Natural disasters killed 76,806 people in 2003, three times the number of victims in 2002, a rise due in part to extremes in the global climate, the world&#39;s largest humanitarian body said on Thursday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Desperate relief workers are struggling to get food and water to the millions of Asia&#39;s tsunami victims facing starvation and disease as the death toll passes 120,000, from what the UN has called &quot;an unprecedented global
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Tens of thousands more bodies have been found in the sea and wreckage of coastal towns around the Indian Ocean, pushing the death toll from Sunday&#39;s tsunami close to 60,000.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll from an  earthquake and tsunami that struck Indonesia's Sumatra island  two days ago has reached 7,072 in Aceh province, according to a  list shown to journalists on Tuesday by a provincial official.
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At least 124,000 people have been confirmed dead in the Asian tsunami disaster as the effort to deliver relief supplies to the millions affected by the giant wave gathers pace.
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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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GALLE: Stricken countries on the Indian Ocean worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of bodies as the the tsunami toll across asia reached 68,000 with more than 12,000 dead in India.
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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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Colombo, Dec 27: 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 today frantically searched for survivors and engaged in reaching aid and medical care
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Colombo - Mass funerals of thousands of tsunami victims got under way on Tuesday in Sri Lanka as the death toll from the weekend&#39;s devastation surged to 17 640.
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The death toll from epic tsunamis that rocked 11 countries rose to 44,000 people today after Sri Lanka and Indonesia significantly increased their confirmed deaths.