Tsunami turns train into a tomb
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The buzz of an electric chain saw pierces the air as it cuts through a coconut palm pinning a bloated corpse. It is the only sound of rescue here where the sea swallowed an entire train packed with 1500 passengers.
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A family displaced by Sunday&#39;s tsunami sleeps on the floor of a school converted into a relief centre in Kalmuni, Sri Lanka December 30, 2004.
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The tsunami claimed the lives of hundreds of foreign tourists. Many families remain separated.
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The tragic news arrived in an e-mail sent Wednesday to Prashan Gomez of Natick. His aunt, Magdalene, was killed when the minivan she was riding in with other vacationing relatives was hit by a series of tsunami waves near the beach in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka. Two other aunts remain missing, said Prashan's wife, Shimaali Fernando-Gomez.
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At least two people die and 50 are hurt when a train plunges into a ravine in the Philippines, officials say.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The vast devastation of Asia's tsunami is stirring painful memories for Margaret Saint - memories of the day she and her family were swept out to sea after a tidal wave slammed into Newfoundland.
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At least 1,000 people aboard a train travelling along the Sri Lankan coast perished when waves swept the carriages off the track in one of the tsunami disaster&#39;s biggest single losses of life.
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The train known as the Queen of the Sea chugged slowly up the sandy, palm-fringed coast of eastern Sri Lanka, carrying hundreds of residents from the capital
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Chandigarh: In a major train disaster, about 50 people were killed and 150 injured when Jammu Tawi-Ahmedabad Express collided head-on with Jalandhar-Pathankot DMU passenger train near Nirthal Bhangala village of Mukerian in Punjab&#39;s Hoshiarpur district on
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One of the most powerful earthquakes in decades sent massive tsunami waves throughout the Indian Ocean, killing at least 15,000 in places ranging from Sri Lanka to Thailand.
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NEW DELHI: Rescue workers pulled corpses from canals and waterlogged fields on Tuesday, as Government warned the death toll of almost 9,400 from a tsunami that lashed the country&#39;s southern coastal areas, would rise further.
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Wailing relatives gathered around dozens of bodies on beaches in southern India on Sunday after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in distant Indonesia killed up to 3,000 people.
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Decaying corpses are piling up in Indonesia&#39;s Aceh province, where up to 10,000 people are feared dead as a result of Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis.
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Indonesia was shaken Thursday by the third powerful earthquake in less than 24 hours, and survivors described watching in horror as the ocean retreated and raced back to shore as a 10-foot-high tsunami.
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More than 12,000 people are known to have died after a massive underwater earthquake sent giant waves crashing into coastlines across southern Asia.
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The magnitude of the tsunami that killed tens of thousands and remade the coasts of the Asian subcontinent was slowly gauged across the world.
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The human impact of the tsunami disaster in sound and pictures.