Death toll rises to 67,000 tsunami victims
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Cargo planes touched down with promised aid Wednesday, bearing everything from lentils to water purifiers to help survivors facing the threat of epidemic after this week&#39;s quake-tsunami catastrophe.
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The death toll rose above 14,000 after an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the world&#39;s biggest in four decades, caused tsunami waves that devastated coastal towns from Thailand to India.
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BANDA ACEH (Indonesia): The death toll from Sundayâs tidal wave disaster climbed to more than 67,000 yesterday and experts warned that disease epidemics from rotting corpses, smashed sewers and contaminated water could double the figure.
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Indonesia's Health Ministry raised the country's death toll from the Dec. 26 tsunami to 166,320 Wednesday, pushing the total number of people killed in the disaster around the region above 225,000.
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The death toll from epic tsunamis that rocked 11 countries rose to 44,000 people today after Sri Lanka and Indonesia significantly increased their confirmed deaths.
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As victim tolls climbed to over 150,000 Wednesday, historic levels of financial and humanitarian aid has entered into the 11 countries devastated by the tsunami disaster.
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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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The death toll of tidal waves caused by a massive earthquake climbed to 10226 on Sunday in seven countries in south and east of Asia.
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Nations on the Indian Ocean from  Indonesia to Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury  their dead and help the survivors of a tsunami as fears grew  the final toll would far exceed the 27,700 people reported  killed.
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The tsunami death toll in Malaysia has risen to 66 as of midnight Wednesday, a spokesman of the Malaysian Control Center in the federal police headquarters said Thursday morning.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The global death toll  from the Asian tsunami shot above 226,000 Wednesday after  Indonesia's Health Ministry confirmed the deaths of tens of  thousands of people previously listed as missing.
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The number of dead from the quake and tsunamis in and around South Asia has passed 76,700. This, after Indonesia&#39;s Health Ministry announced new figures.
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The toll in Sunday&#39;s earthquake-induced tsunamis continued to mount on Tuesday with latest figures indicating nearly 7,400 deaths in India and over 20,000 in six countries across South and South East Asia.
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The Red Cross says the death toll from one of the worst tsunamis in history could top 100,000, as more bodies are found from India to Indonesia.
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The official toll in southern India from tsunamis has reached at least 9,571 people confirmed dead and 5,914 missing, many of them presumed dead, the government said.
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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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Sri Lanka's government said on Tuesday  more than 18,700 people are confirmed dead two days after a  tsunami battered the island and officials fear the toll will  hit 25,000.