Search for Thai Tsunami Dead Narrows to Hard Hit Areas
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Teams searching for bodies in tsunami-devastated Thailand zeroed in on the hardest hit areas on Monday, as Thai and Japanese navy ships scoured the seas for more dead.
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Distraught relatives and friends of those missing after the most catastrophic tsunami on record are increasingly turning to the Internet to search for loved ones.
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Devastated coastal areas across Asia struggled Monday to prevent hunger and outbreaks of disease as dazed survivors searched desperately for the missing, one
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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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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has said nearly all the 6,000 people still missing after Sunday&#39;s tsunamis probably died in the disaster.
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Foreign forensic experts joined the desperate race to identify Thailand&#39;s tsunami victims as the death toll and the number of missing mounted on Thursday.
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We believe that death toll is now between 600 and 800 in Thailand, but there appear to be hundreds of people missing. In Phang Nga, 100km north of Phuket, local authorities are saying that bodies are lying
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Teams searching for more bodies from the tsunami disaster in Thailand, where some 5,200 people are confirmed dead, are pumping out a lake feared to contain the corpses of more victims.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - The tsunami which ripped  apart tourist-packed Khao Lak beach in southern Thailand may  have killed 3,000 people there, district police chief Col Aroon  Klaewvatee said on Wednesday.
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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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Foreign forensic experts have joined the desperate race to identify Thailand&#39;s tsunami victims as the death toll and the number of missing mount and people give up hope of finding loved ones alive.
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Villages along the western coast of Aceh Province in Indonesia, where help was slow to arrive, appear to have suffered some of the worst losses in the tsunami.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - Heavy monsoon rain hampered the retrieval of several bodies trapped in the wreckage of a budget airliner that crashed while trying to land on the Thai resort island of Phuket, killing 88 people.
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The identification of Thailand's tsunami dead becomes increasingly difficult as bodies decompose.
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Sri Lankans lit candles and chanted prayers for the dead to mark one month since the tsunami Wednesday, and mourners on a Thai island launched two new fishing boats in a first step toward rebuilding the devastated local fleet. On the hardest-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra, there were no memorials, but children went back to school and the empty desks of dead classmates.
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The Temple of Lom Kaen in the devastated tourist hub of Khao Lak has, for many, become the last stop in the search for missing loved ones.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - Thai police on Monday ordered  families and friends of foreigners to stay away from  tsunami-hit areas, including Buddhist temples turned temporary  morgues where they have searched for missing loved ones.