Number of Swedes missing in Asian tsunami drops to 523
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Swedish police on Thursday revised downwards the number of Swedes missing after the December 26 Asian tsunami to 523 from 569 a week ago, indicating that the latest figure could be close to final.
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More than 2,000 Scandinavians were among  more than 3,500 foreigners still unaccounted for three days  after deadly walls of water slammed into coastal communities  and resorts around the Indian Ocean.
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With some 1,500 Swedes remainingmissing in Thailand, Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds has called the disaster in Asia a &quot;national trauma&quot; for Sweden, Radio Sweden reported on Tuesday.
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Some 1,600 Swedish holiday makers are still unaccounted for after tsunami waves from an underwater earthquake devastated south Asian beach resorts on Sunday, Swedish public radio said on Tuesday.
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Hours after a tsunami flattened south Asia beaches &#151; a magnet for thousands of vacationing Swedes &#151; the Swedish foreign minister went to the theater.
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Sweden greeted the new year with a day of mourning Saturday to honor 59 Swedes confirmed dead and 3,559 missing, while Italy raised its death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster to 18 and said more than 600 Italians had not been found.
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The first Swedish dead from the Asian  tsunami came home on Wednesday morning to a nation which fears  it may have suffered its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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Rescue workers dug through the ruins of this tsunami-devastated town in search of bodies Thursday, as frightened locals woke up from a third night spent in hillside camps overlooking the sea. The death toll stood at 531, with more than 270 missing.
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UPDATED 01:30 FRIDAY Police publish names of missing Finns; upwards of 260 now feared dead in Thailand The number of Finnish citizens missing in the Asian tsunami catastrophe has increased still further, and ...
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German ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl is among tourists caught in the Asian tsunami while 1,500 Swedes are missing.
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More than 2,000 Scandinavians and  1,000 Germans were still unaccounted for on Wednesday, three  days after their tropical paradise was devastated by Asia's  tsunami.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - A case of mistaken identity  has heaped mystery on the disappearance of a 12-year-old  Swedish boy in Asia's tsunami, police said on Wednesday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Up to five million people were displaced by tsunamis that killed nearly 119,000 people in Asia, officials said, as aftershocks rocked traumatised survivors.
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Nordic countries dispatched search teams and made public appeals for help to find some 2,000 Swedes, Danes, Finns and Norwegians missing in the aftermath of earthquake-driven tsunamis in south Asia.
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Sweden greeted the new year with a day of mourning Saturday to honor 59 Swedes confirmed dead and 3,559 missing, while Italy raised its death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster to 18 and said more ...
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Sweden has confirmed that 59 of its people have been killed by the tsunami, but with 3,500 still missing, Prime Minister Goran Persson said that the toll could rise to more than 1,000. Swedes and Norwegians in ...
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Sweden now seems likely to be the Western country hardest hit by the tsunamis that wrecked the southern Asian coastlines the day after Christmas and killed more than 100,000 people.