In Stench, Amid Ghosts, Seeking the Tsunami Dead
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Huge numbers of bodies are still being found in Aceh, Indonesia, a month after the tsunami hit, a reminder that normalcy is nowhere near.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Dead bodies littered the  streets on Tuesday and fresh water, food and fuel were in short  supply in Indonesia's Aceh province where it is feared as many  as 10,000 people were killed by a tsunami.
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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 more than 52,000.
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Shouting names of the missing relatives, looking around to identify the loved ones and moving bodies for burials -- all are the scene in a Sri Lankan coastal town a day after the sudden tsunamis.
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Two weeks after the tsunami swamped the northern Sumatra coastline thousands of bodies still cover the area, looters are picking through the debris, and survivors still in shock wait for medical help for broken bones and deep wounds.
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Anxious relatives trying to locate survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster overwhelm a Red Cross website set up to help track loved ones. Organizers are setting up a larger server.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Foreign forensic experts  joined the desperate race to identify Thailand's tsunami  victims as the death toll and the number of missing mounted on  Thursday and people gave up hope of finding loved ones alive.
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Rescuers in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar isles are struggling to assess the tsunami toll in areas untouched by the modern world.
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International teams of forensic scientists have begun the grim task of identifying victims of the Indian Ocean tsunamis. The gruesome job of identifying victims has been made all the more daunting by the sheer number of bodies piling up in morgues.
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After years of helping readers lose  themselves in remote and far-flung parts of the world, travel  publisher Lonely Planet is now trying to find them amid the  tens of thousands dead or missing in tsunami-hit countries.
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Public health officials warn survivors of Sunday&#39;s tsunami face a grave danger, death and disease caused by filthy drinking water.
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Dead bodies littered the streets on Tuesday and fresh water, food and fuel were in short supply in Indonesia's Aceh province where it is feared as many as 10,000 people were killed by a tsunami.
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Without water or food for six days after a tsunami, villagers on a remote southern archipelago are starving and desperate for relief to reach them, survivors and officials said today.
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Days of colossal earthquakes and tsunami warnings have forced traumatized Indonesian villagers to seek safety in the last place imaginable: graveyards.
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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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Rescue workers dug through the ruins of this tsunami-devastated town in search of bodies Thursday, as frightened locals woke up from a third night spent in hillside camps overlooking the sea. The death toll stood at 531, with more than 270 missing.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand -- Miles of tsunami-shattered beach hotels on the Thai mainland north of Phuket island began yielding up their dead yesterday, bloated gashed, and mangled bodies.