Bodies Pile Up in India, Govt Warns Toll to Rise
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Rescue workers pulled corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India on Tuesday, as the government warned the death toll of almost 9,400 from a tsunami that lashed the country&#39;s south would rise further.
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The Indian government on Thursday said 13,230 people were dead or feared dead across the country after the tsunami that struck at the weekend, killing more than 80,000 people from Asia to Africa.
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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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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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India on Friday cut the official toll of dead and feared dead from this week&#39;s Indian Ocean tsunami to 10,736 from 13,268. The change was made after almost 3,000 people listed as feared dead in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands were accounted for.
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NEW DELHI/JAKARTA/NEW YORK - The death toll in the tsunamis that ripped across Southeast and South Asia climbed above 24,000 on Tuesday as emergency and government officials said two days after the disaster that they feared the number of victims would
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NAGAPATTINAM, India: Relief workers raced Wednesday to bury decaying corpses amid fears of disease as the death toll in India from towering tidal waves that crashed into shorelines climbed above 9,000 and kept rising.
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The death toll in flash floods in Goalpara district of Assam state in northeast India rose Mondayto 133 with the recovery of 14 more bodies since Sunday night, thePress Trust
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The Australian death toll in Asia&#39;s tsunamis has risen to six and 11 others still missing are feared dead, the government said yesterday.
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SOUTH-EAST Asia yesterday turned to the grim task of burying its multitudes of dead from the tsunami disaster. Tens of thousands of bodies lay unburied all across the region.
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Indian officials said on Tuesday at least 7,000 people were feared dead in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands after a tsunami hit at the weekend.
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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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Rescuers in India's flood-ravaged northeast have recovered a further 37 bodies, taking the death toll in flash floods and landslides in the region to 157 in the past five days, an official said.
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India raised the number of people killed or feared killed in last week's tsunami to 14,488 on Sunday, up by more than 1,700 since the previous evening's estimate.
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Death of opposition leader raises fears of expanded violence in the unstable South Asian nation.
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Rescue workers pulled rotting corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India, as the government warned the death toll of 7,100 would rise further from a tsunami that lashed the country's south.
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Indonesia's Health Ministry declared Wednesday that more than 70,000 people previously listed as missing are dead, significantly raising its estimate for the death toll from last month's tsunami.