Disaster stuns tourists
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The Sri Lankan cricket team&#39;s problems are far worse than previously imagined, with four players now personally affected by the impact of devastating tsunamis on their homeland.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- Thousands of European tourists were beginning their day with breakfast or by sunning themselves on Thailand's white sand beaches when massive waves triggered by an earthquake swept people, bungalows, boats, and cars out to sea.
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The area in South Asia devastated by powerful tidal waves is popular with tourists attracted to the beaches and diving.
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SINGAPORE : Among those affected by Sunday&#39;s tsunami were Singapore-based hotel and resort operators with businesses in the region.
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Three people were missing after flash floods tore through a popular coastal tourist area in southwest England, sweeping dozens of cars into the sea and leaving hundreds feared trapped.
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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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Rescuers were hoping for "individual miracles" of survival as they combed the beaches and islands of southern Thailand Wednesday for missing tourists and locals swept away by earthquake-powered tidal waves. Among them were more than 2,000 Scandinavians and 200 guests at a French-owned hotel.
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Thousands of European tourists in Asian beach resorts were listed dead or missing in the wake of the tidal waves that engulfed the region after an earthquake.
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Four tourists died in the southern Thai tourist resort of Phuket after a major earthquake hit Southeast Asia yesterday, a disaster official said.
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Weeping residents combed through debris and stunned tourists meandered through litter-strewn streets on Monday, a day after tsunamis swept across the Indian Ocean from Thailand to Somalia, killing at least 23,000 people.
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BANGKOK : Western tourists who survived giant waves that struck Thailand&#39;s shores at the weekend have been astounded by the generosity of locals grappling with their own massive destruction and loss of life.
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Holidaymakers caught up in the south east Asian disaster speak of their terror, while relatives at home wait for news.
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A powerful earthquake rocked Indonesia's premier tourist island of Bali Wednesday, killing one person, injuring at least two and triggering some panic, officials said.
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Hospital staff said ambulances had been unable to go out as the city shook to explosions. Later on. Saturday they collected two dead and seven wounded civilians, among them women and children.
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Europe is reeling from the waves, not just because of the ever-rising death toll but because of the growing realization that among the dead could likely be several thousand tourists who had traveled to southern Asia for the holidays.
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Scores of bodies were scattered on streets and among trees in a scene of horror on Tuesday after tidal waves ripped through the Thai tourist resort of Khao Lak.
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Thousands of British tourists are stranded in south and east Asia after an earthquake sent massive waves flooding across the region.