Race to bury Asia&#39;s dead as toll soars near 60,000
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Stricken Indian Ocean nations worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of bodies as experts warned disease could kill as many people as the 60,000 already dead from the violent crush of Sunday&#39;s tsunami.
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The official death toll from last weekend's tsunami disaster is approaching 150,000 with most of the victims in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
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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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Asia&#39;s tsunami death toll has soared above 125,000 as millions struggle to find food and clean water and persistent rumours of new giant waves send many fleeing inland in panic.
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The death toll from Sunday's huge sea surges spirals towards 60,000 as recovery workers reach outlying areas.
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Soldiers searched for bodies in treetops, families wept over the dead lined up on beaches and rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that killed at least 12,600.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The mercilessness of  Asia'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.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations warned  on Wednesday Asia's tsunami death toll could double to about  300,000 unless survivors received clean water and other basic  services by the end of the week to prevent disease.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The world poured money  into tsunami-battered Asia Saturday, as aid workers, troops and  grieving locals worked frantically to bury thousands of rotting  corpses and help millions threatened by disease.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka (Agencies): 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&#39;s tsunami over 60,000.
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Hunger and grief stalked Indonesia&#39;s devastated Aceh province yesterday as officials tried to reach remote areas where tens of thousands were thought to have died
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Banda Aceh - The confirmed deaths in a mammoth Asian quake and tsunami soared to 60 000 on Wednesday as worst-hit Indonesia readied bulldozers to dig mass graves for corpses in a rush to ward off disease, which the United Nations health agency said could
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Survivors in seven countries  on the shores of the Indian Ocean scrabbled frantically through  debris and devastation for their loved ones on Tuesday as the  death toll climbed inexorably toward 40,000.
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The international community pledged more relief efforts for tsunami-devastated South and Southeast Asian countries Thursday as the death toll from the worst earthquake and tsunamis climbed to over 115,000.
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Latest reports indicate that over 7,000 people have died as a result of a devastating earthquake that hit Southeast Asia early this morning.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Foreign forensic experts  joined the desperate race to identify Thailand's tsunami  victims as the death toll and the number of missing mounted on  Thursday.
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Officials in Indonesia say the number of people killed there is now nearly 80,000 and the death toll from around the area is set to rise still higher.