Dead Are Put at 57,000 as Bodies Wash Ashore Â Many Missing
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As local officials struggled to account for the dead and missing, another challenge began to loom: heading off disease.
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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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Rescue workers dug decomposed corpses from ruined homes and hotels in this tsunami-devastated town Thursday, and a mass burial was held for some of the 547 people killed by the waves.
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Soldiers searched for bodies in  treetops, families wept over the dead laid on beaches and  rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia  counted the cost Monday of a tsunami that killed more than  15,500.
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Rescuers were desperately searching for survivors after floods and landslides unleashed by a tropical storm in the Philippines killed more than 300 people and left at least 150 others missing, many buried alive under tonnes of debris.
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Bloated bodies and weeping relatives filled mortuaries today as Tropical Storm Jeanne killed more than 570 Haitians with the toll expected to rise.
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The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to 691 Tuesday, with 600 of them in Gonaives, and officials said they expected to find more dead and estimated tens of thousands of people were homeless.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - More than 300 people died in floods and mudslides in Haiti sparked by Tropical Storm Jeanne over the weekend, the United Nations and local officials said Monday.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - 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's  tsunami close to 60,000.
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Bodies washed up on tropical beaches and piled up in hospitals Monday, raising fears of disease across a 10-nation arc of destruction left by a monster earthquake and walls of water that killed more than 22,000 people. Thousands were missing and millions homeless.
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Soldiers searched for bodies in  treetops, families wept over the dead laid on beaches and  rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia  counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that killed more than  15,500.
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Volunteers dragged scores of corpses from beaches, inland pools and once top-class hotels Tuesday with the prime minister saying the death toll from earthquake-powered tidal waves could pass 2,000.
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Rescue workers pulled thousands more rotting corpses from the mud and debris of flattened towns along the Sumatran coast Saturday, two weeks after surging walls of water caused unprecedented destruction on the shores of the Indian Ocean. The death toll in 11 countries passed 150,000.
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Police say at least 5,000 people are believed to have been killed by the weekend tsunami that struck the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, the Press Trust (PTI) of India reported on Tuesday.
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UP to 500 people were believed to be dead or missing in the eastern Philippines last night after a tropical storm unleashed catastrophic floods and landslides that smashed roads and bridges and wiped out villages.
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At least 300 people have died, and another 150 are missing, in floods and landslides unleashed by a storm which struck the northern Philippines.