Death toll in Sri Lanka touches 12,000
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Colombo: The death toll in Sri Lanka went up to nearly 12,000 on Tuesday, two days after fierce tidal waves swamped its coastline.
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Thousands of frantic Sri Lankans searched corpse-strewn rubble for relatives along the Indian Ocean island's devastated coastline on Tuesday as the nation's death toll from a deadly tsunami rose above 12,200.
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More than 63,162 people were killed in 12 countries in southern Asia and Africa from Sunday's massive earthquake and tsunami waves, according to official figures. A breakdown of the toll so far:
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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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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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Over 125,000 people are now believed to have been killed in the Asian tsunamis, with millions left without the resources for daily life.
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PETER CAVE: As the death toll rises, the Sri Lankan Government has appealed to doctors all over the world to come forward and help the victims.
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Sri Lanka said on Tuesday the death toll from a tsunami that slammed into the Indian Ocean island rose to 12,212 people.
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Sri Lanka bears the brunt of Sunday's sea surges with nearly 11,000 dead and up to a million displaced.
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Sri Lanka said on Monday deaths in the Indian Ocean island&#39;s rebel-controlled north and east had raised the toll from the worst tsunami in memory to around 4,500 victims.
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With the death toll still rising in 12 countries, the disaster will require one of the largest and most expensive relief efforts in history.
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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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Sri Lanka said on Tuesday the death  toll from a tsunami that slammed into the Indian Ocean island  rose to 12,212 people.
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Death tolls in Sri Lanka and India continue to rise, with an estimated 11,000 dead in the island state, and 6,000 dead in India. Of those deaths, 3,000 are thought to have occurred in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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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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The confirmed death toll in Asia, after Sunday&#39;s massive earthquake and tsunamis, has surged past 125,000. Indonesia which bore the brunt of the catastrophe, has updated its toll to almost 80,000 with entire coastal villages washed away.
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Sri Lanka's worst tsunami in living memory has killed 2,498 people and affected over one million more, or around 5 percent of the Indian Ocean island's population, the government said on Sunday.