Mass burials for Asian victims
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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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As people gathered on the beaches of southern India to scatter flower petals on the sea, and began to bury the dead, nations
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Beslan, Russia - Funeral processions snaked through this grief-racked town as relatives buried victims of the school siege in southern Russia in rows of freshly dug graves Sunday.
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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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Thousands of bodies of tsunami victims are in Buddhist temples across southern Thailand. For many days before their graves were dug, they lay on the temples' concrete floors in 90-degree heat, which accelerated decomposition and complicated efforts to identify them. The scientists are relying on dental records and DNA to help their cause.
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Urgent efforts are being made in Sri Lanka to bury the thousands of people killed by Sunday&#39;s sea surges to prevent the spread of disease.
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As ash from cremation fires drifted through the air around the devastated beach resort of Khao Lak last night, Thai soldiers unloaded numbered bodybags from a lorry at a graveyard in Bangmuang.
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Buddhist monks led services for the dead in southern Sri Lanka as scores of bodies from a train hit by the tsunami were laid in a mass grave.
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Dead bodies do not spread disease but  mass burials after disasters, such as this week's killer floods  in Haiti, cause unnecessary suffering to surviving relatives,  the United Nations' health agency said Friday. Citing mass  graves being dug in the Caribbean island, where over 1,000  people were killed by tropical storm Jeanne, the World Health  Organization (WHO) said it was a wasteful misconception that  cadavers caused epidemics.
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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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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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KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka (CP) - There is nothing to indicate that the dusty expanse of soil behind this fishing community's main mosque is a mass grave.
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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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The identification of Thailand's tsunami dead becomes increasingly difficult as bodies decompose.
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AUSTRALIAN specialists were today beginning the grisly task of identifying the bodies of up to 1,000 people killed by Sunday&#39;s tsunami in the Thai resort area of Khao Lak.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Stricken Indian Ocean nations  worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of bodies as  experts warned disease could kill as many people as the 60,000  already dead from the violent crush of Sunday's tsunami.
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TAIPEI - Rescuers in northern Taiwan yesterday recovered the bodies of 15 people buried by a mudslide which flattened an entire village, as East Asia cleaned up and counted the cost of Typhoon Aere.