Entire towns gone; death toll soars
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Airborne military patrols scoured inaccessible sections of Sumatra island Thursday and discovered that great swaths of land were inundated and roads, bridges and whole villages had vanished.
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&quot;Our latest data shows 16 dead with most of them killed after their houses collapsed on them. This. He said the quake damaged more than 600 houses, six schools, several churches and mosques.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Airborne military patrols scoured inaccessible sections of Sumatra island yesterday and discovered that swaths of land were inundated and roads, villages, and bridges had vanished. After helicopter flyovers, rescuers estimated more than 80,000 deaths in the region and described the scene as catastrophic.
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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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We believe that death toll is now between 600 and 800 in Thailand, but there appear to be hundreds of people missing. In Phang Nga, 100km north of Phuket, local authorities are saying that bodies are lying
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Hopes were fading for finding survivors from hundreds of people missing after murderous weekend flash floods devastated a town in eastern Ethiopia, officials and residents said.
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At least 108 people have been swept to their deaths and hundreds more are feared dead after rivers of mud and volcanic ash swamped villages in the eastern Philippines, officials said.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - The sea and wreckage of  coastal towns all around the Indian Ocean yielded up tens of  thousands of bodies on Tuesday, pushing the toll from Sunday's  tsunami past 50,000.
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Â· Nearly 200 drowned and 650,000 homes destroyed Â· UN appeals for aid as food sent to seven countries
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Towns burn as criminal gangs go on rampage as crisis deepens despite intervention of Annan
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BESLAN, Russia -- The sound of weeping floated out of open windows and doors across this town Sunday as relatives began to bury more than 330 victims of a three-day hostage ordeal that ended in chaos and bloodshed.
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More than 50 people are dead and dozens are missing after Japan&#39;s deadliest storm in more than a decade caused flash floods that washed away cars and entire hillsides.
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&quot;Thousands of bodies rotting in the tropical heat were tumbled into mass graves, but officials said polluted water posed a greater threat..&quot;. BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The death toll of the Asian tsunami disaster
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Over 125,000 people are now believed to have been killed in the Asian tsunamis, with millions left without the resources for daily life.
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THE sea and wreckage of coastal towns all around the Indian Ocean yielded up tens of thousands of bodies today, pushing the toll from Sunday&#39;s tsunami past 59,000.
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Tens of thousands more bodies have been found in the sea and wreckage of coastal towns around the Indian Ocean, pushing the death toll from Sunday&#39;s tsunami close to 60,000.