Sri Lanka searches for survivors
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Sri Lanka bears the brunt of Sunday's sea surges with more than 2,400 dead and up to a million displaced.
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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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Rescue teams converged on beaches and remote islands in search of the missing today as authorities reported that more than 430 people, including a number of foreign tourists, were killed and 4,100 injured when earthquake-spawned tidal waves devastated
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Rescuers were searching through rubble for survivors on Thursday after Japan&#39;s deadliest typhoon in a decade triggered floods and landslides that killed at least 44 people and left 36 missing.
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Devastated coastal areas across South Asia struggled Monday to prevent hunger and outbreaks of disease as dazed survivors searched desperately for the missing.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Devastated coastal areas across South Asia struggled yesterday to prevent hunger and outbreaks of disease as dazed survivors searched desperately for the missing a day after massive tsunamis surged across the region. The death toll rose to more than 23,000, almost half of them on this island nation in the Indian Ocean.
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Colombo: 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 on Monday frantically searched for survivors and engaged in reaching aid and medical care for
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THOPPIGALA, Sri Lanka -- Army commandos seized a massive rocky plateau nicknamed "Tora Bora" and searched grassy fields and brush yesterday looking for as many as 200 Tamil Tiger rebels -- the last organized resistance, the military said, to government forces in eastern Sri Lanka.
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Rescuers are scouring the sea for missing tourists and soldiers are racing to recover bodies amid fears of disease as Asia counts the cost of a tsunami that has
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Rescuers battled to reach survivors in stranded villages, restore basic services and prevent the outbreak of deadly diseases across South Asia on Tuesday in the aftermath of a massive undersea earthquake and subsequent tsunami that ravaged the region.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Thousands of frantic Sri  Lankans searched corpse-strewn rubble for relatives along the  Indian Ocean island's devastated coastline on Tuesday as the  nation's death toll from a deadly tsunami rose above 12,200.
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Rescue teams searched areas around an airfield in central Indonesia on Wednesday for survivors from a plane crash that police said killed at least 31 people and left 47 unaccounted for.
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COLOMBO : Sri Lanka launched a massive humanitarian operation on Monday after tsunami waves devastated much of the island&#39;s coastline, leaving at least 4,857 people dead and 1,555 others reported missing.
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Rescue teams in India and Sri Lanka are heading out to the last of the areas devastated by tsunami waves. The story unfolding is of more devastation.
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Search operations continued in the tsunami-battered Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday to trace 154 missing fishermen and relief measures were on in full swing in nine coastal districts where 96 people were killed.
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Thai rescuers load empty coffins to be sent to Phuket at Bangkok military airport Monday, Dec. 27, 2004. Rescuers converged on beaches and islands Monday to search for survivors of earthquake-spawned tidal
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In Sri Lanka, lives must be restarted, houses rebuilt, families reconstituted and losses weighed against others' misfortune.