Hundreds of foreign tourists missing
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&quot;There are lots of dead foreigners because it is during our high season and Christmas. It is a. family vacation time,&quot; Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told reporters on Tuesday.
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A group of 250 mainly European tourists was stranded for four days in the Bolivian Andes after indigenous protestors blocked roads amid a territorial dispute, the Interior Ministry said.
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Indian officials say thousands of people are still missing following the quake that caused devastation in much of Asia.
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Up to 50 migrants were missing in seas south of the Canary Islands Thursday after their boat capsized, a Spanish Marine Rescue spokeswoman said.
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The tally of foreigners confirmed dead from the December quake and tsunami in southern Asia, according to their countries' foreign ministries, as well as the number missing. Some countries include all foreigners who have failed to contact authorities in the count of those missing while others count only those known to have been present when the tsunami hit.
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Reports were sketchy on the number of foreigners left dead, missing or injured following Sunday's Indonesian earthquake, which generated tidal waves that smashed into coastal areas throughout southern Asia and parts of Africa. The following list was compiled from foreign ministries, embassies and media reports:
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THOUSANDS of tourists in Asian beach resorts were listed dead or missing today in the wake of the tidal waves that engulfed the region after an earthquake.
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Colombo - Nearly 11 000 people, including 70 foreigners, were killed and 50 more were missing after tsunamis devastated much of Sri Lanka&#39;s coastline, the military and Tamil rebels said on Monday.
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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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PETER CAVE: Ten Australian citizens and permanent residents have been confirmed dead, a dozen are officially missing, while as many as 5,000 are still unaccounted for since the tsunamis hit on Boxing Day.
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BANGKOK  - Some 4,086 people are listed as missing in Thailand after tidal waves struck six southern provinces at the weekend, the interior ministry said.
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Troops joined police searching Wednesday for hundreds of people missing a day after a bridge collapsed killing 16 and injuring 40 more in a steep river gorge in Nepal, officials said.
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Thailand says at least 473 foreigners are among the dead from Sunday's sea surges, with hundreds missing.
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Sri Lanka says it fears about 200 foreign tourists have been killed by its worst tsunami in memory after the military raised the overall death toll to more than 10,000 people.
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Thousands of North Americans are still missing in Thailand and Sri Lanka after the deadly tsunami.
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About 50 African migrants are missing off the Canary Islands after their boat sank, survivors say.
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The Andaman islands police chief says most of the thousands of people missing there are probably dead.