Mass funerals for tsunami victims
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MASS funerals of thousands of tsunami victims got underway today in Sri Lanka as the death toll from the weekend&#39;s devastation surged to 17,640.
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Colombo - Sri Lanka on Monday short-circuited legal formalities to speed up funerals for the thousands of dead in this country which suffered the heaviest loss of life from tidal waves which swept across Asia on Sunday, an official said.
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&quot;Thousands of bodies rotting in the tropical heat were tumbled into mass graves, but officials said polluted water posed a greater threat..&quot;. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The death toll of the Asian tsunami disaster
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PHUKET, Thailand  - A week after a deadly tsunami  swept away thousands of lives along Thailand's tropical  coastline, people prayed for the victims in special church  services Sunday and spoke of putting the tragedy behind them.
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World leaders step up plans for a united response to the Asian tsunami, as the rising numbers of dead are mourned.
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MANILA Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos joined the funeral Wednesday for Fernando Poe Jr., the country&#39;s most popular actor, who nearly unseated President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the presidential election this year.
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ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUALS COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY A father of a victim of Sunday&#39;s quake-triggered tidal wave cries before a mass burial in Tamil Tiger rebel-held Mullativu, eastern Sri Lanka, December 28, 2004.
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A week after a deadly tsunami swept away thousands of lives along Thailand's tropical coastline, people prayed for the victims in special church services Sunday and spoke of putting the tragedy behind them.
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Millions of people across the UK and Europe are to observe a three minute silence  for the Asian tsunami dead.
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Three years after Indian Ocean nations were lashed by massive tsunamis, sombre ceremonies were held Wednesday to recall those lost in one of the worst natural catastrophes in modern times.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Dignitaries, sailors in dress uniform and silver-haired ex-submariners crowded into a Halifax church Wednesday for the funeral of Lieut.
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Sri Lankans lit candles and chanted prayers for the dead to mark one month since the tsunami Wednesday, and mourners on a Thai island launched two new fishing boats in a first step toward rebuilding the devastated local fleet. On the hardest-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra, there were no memorials, but children went back to school and the empty desks of dead classmates.
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Sri Lanka staged mass funerals for bomb blast victims on Tuesday after independence day festivities were marred by a string of attacks blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels.
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HOSPITALS overflowed with corpses and funeral homes were crammed with crowds as Sri Lanka continued to struggle with its largest natural disaster.
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Thailand has started exhuming hundreds of bodies hastily buried in mass graves after the Indian Ocean tsunami in an effort to find out how many are among thousands reported missing, many of them foreign tourists.
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Thousands of mourners have attended funeral prayers for two of the victims of Sunday&#39;s blast at a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
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MADRAS, 28 December 2004 - Grief and anguish marked final rituals across Southeast Asia yesterday as relatives buried or cremated their loved ones; and the death toll from a powerful earthquake and the giant tidal waves it unleashed crossed 25,000.