Hope diminishes as corpses surface
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Miles of tsunami-shattered beach hotels on the Thai mainland north of Phuket island began yielding up their dead yesterday, bloated gashed, and mangled bodies.
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Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue Tuesday. Carcasses of pigs, goats and dogs and pieces of smashed furniture floated in muddy streams that once were the streets of this battered city. Desperate people swarmed a truck delivering water.
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Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to around 44,000.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - Rescuers scoured the sea for  missing tourists and fishermen in Asia Monday and fears of  disease grew as emergency services struggled with rotting  bodies from a devastating tsunami that killed more than 22,700  people.
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Fears of disease outbreaks in the flooded Indonesia capital of Jakarta spread Monday as fresh water supplies were dwindling.
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Villagers in the central  Philippines buried hundreds of relatives and friends in mass  graves on Sunday as hopes faded of finding survivors from  Typhoon Durian.
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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI NEW ORLEANS - Water is unforgiving to the dead and by the time the crews arrived, the men were missing their eyes.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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Water is unforgiving to the dead and by the time the crews arrived, the men were missing their eyes.
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The photographs on the bulletin boards outside the Yan Yao Buddhist temple make for a gruesome display. Hundreds and hundreds of bloated, disfigured and decomposed corpses stare out blankly.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Survivors huddle in  clearings without food or shelter above the water-damage line  all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float for miles out to sea.
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Indian Ocean nations from Indonesia to  Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury their dead and  get water and other emergency supplies to survivors of a  tsunami that killed more than 23,200 people.
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The bodies had been whisked away but the dried pool of blood covering the dirt-floor dead end of a twisting alley was a chilling sign of what happened here last week.
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Waters begin to recede but aid agencies in Haiti struggle to bring supplies to people hit by tropical storm Jeanne.
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NEW DELHI: With thousands of bodies rotting and infrastructure in tatters, authorities and medical relief workers fear an epidemic and severe shortage of food supplies along south Indian coastline and in Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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DARAGA, Philippines  - Villagers in the central Philippines buried hundreds of relatives and friends in mass graves on Sunday as hopes faded of finding survivors from Typhoon Durian.
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SONANKUPPAM, India -- Huddled in hushed silence, an anxious crowd stood staring at the approaching motorboat. As six bloated corpses were pulled out and laid on the ground, the crisp morning air was shattered by the shrill wails of women who began to examine the bodies, in search of a missing family member.