Sri Lanka&#39;s death toll mounts:
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[World News]: Colombo, Dec 28 : The death toll in the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka continued to mount by hundreds Tuesday, with unconfirmed reports putting it at as high as 19,000, with hundreds still missing.
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At least 52 people have been killed in Sri Lanka as heavy sea and land battles erupted while Tamil Tiger rebels warned that the island would plunge in a &amp;quot;fatal war&amp;quot; if the military kept up air strikes.
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Civilian casualties have reached "appalling levels" in Sri Lanka's civil war, the Red Cross said Wednesday as the military announced its troops killed 15 ethnic Tamil rebels in clashes across the island nation's restive north.
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COLOMBO: Mass funerals were underway in Sri Lanka as the death toll from the tidal wave disaster neared 12,000 with decomposed bodies pulled from washed out trains, cars and devastated buildings, officials said.
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Colombo, Dec 27: The death toll in the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka reached 12,000, including at least 70 foreigners while many were reported still missing as rescuers today frantically searched for survivors and engaged in reaching aid and medical care
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The international Red Cross said Wednesday that the death toll from this week's earthquake and tsunamis in the Indian Ocean could rise to more than 100,000.
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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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[World News] Colombo, Sep 30 : Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga said Thursday that the government can no longer ignore a spate of killings blamed on Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
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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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A total of 22,493 people have been confirmed killed in Sri Lanka by a tsunami and the number is rising, the government said on Wednesday, forecasting the toll could pass the 30,000 mark.
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Colombo - Mass funerals of thousands of tsunami victims got under way on Tuesday in Sri Lanka as the death toll from the weekend&#39;s devastation surged to 17 640.
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SRI Lanka said today it feared about 200 foreign tourists had 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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A total of 22,493 people have been  confirmed killed in Sri Lanka by a tsunami and the number is  rising, the government said on Wednesday, forecasting the toll  could pass the 30,000 mark.
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Civilian casualties have reached "appalling levels" in Sri Lanka's civil war, the Red Cross said Wednesday
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Sri Lanka calls for more international aid for up to a million people displaced by Sunday's tsunami.
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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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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lanka's tsunami death toll  shot up on Monday as officials said the more they cleared up,  the more bodies they found.