Thousands still missing as mass burials begin
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COLOMBO A military spokesman raised the estimated number of deaths in Sri Lanka caused by devastating waves by more than 5,000 people on Monday, increasing estimates of the death toll from the regional catastrophe to more than 20,000 people.
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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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Authorities on Wednesday began burying Thailand's last 110 unidentified victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, a little more than two weeks ahead of the second anniversary of the disaster.
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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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Workers used dump trucks to empty more than 100 bodies into a 14-foot-deep mass grave yesterday, as officials struggled to deal with the corpses of hundreds of Haitian flooding victims.
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Flood victims in Haiti are buried in a mass grave, amid more warnings of the threat of disease.
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(Columbia) Dec. 30, 2004 - Officials now say more than 84,000 people are known dead with tens of thousands still missing. The Red Cross fears the overall death toll across eleven nations will top 100,000.
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COLOMBO  - Thousands of tsunami victims were buried in mass graves as the death toll neared 18,000 and Sri Lanka&#39;s president called for ethnic unity to tackle the crisis.
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Death notices sent to relatives of missing people
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Preparations are being made to repatriate the bodies of seven Australians killed in the tsunamis in Thailand. Foreign Affairs officials say they have serious concerns for a further nine missing Australians.
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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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The number of dead was approaching 24,000 Monday in the wake of Sunday&#39;s South Asia earthquake and devastating tsunamis. Eight Americans have been reported dead, and US Secretary of State Colin Powell says several hundred more are missing.
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Details have begun to emerge about Britons killed, or missing presumed dead, as a result of the Indian Ocean tsunami. A total of 26 Britons have been confirmed dead, but this figure is set to rise.
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Relief workers in northern Sumatra have begun collecting and burying thousands of anonymous corpses - a task that has spiked the death toll from Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis to more than 119,000.
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SONANKUPPAM, India -- Huddled in hushed silence, an anxious crowd stood staring at the approaching motorboat. As six bloated corpses were pulled out and laid on the ground, the crisp morning air was shattered by the shrill wails of women who began to examine the bodies, in search of a missing family member.
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The Andaman islands police chief says most of the thousands of people missing there are probably dead.
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Soldiers laid 72 coffins in two trenches, a mass grave for victims of the Israeli bombardment. Elsewhere, mounds of rubble sat undisturbed; rescue workers were too fearful of missiles to search for bodies.