Sri Lanka death toll hits 26
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Five Muslim civilians were killed in shell attacks in the Sri Lankan town of Muttur, raising the death toll from clashes between the army and Tamil rebels to 26, a Muslim legislator said.
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Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 34 Tamil Tiger rebels over the last two days, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday, as heavy fighting in the restive north deepens the island's renewed civil war.
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COLOMBO A military spokesman raised the estimated number of deaths in Sri Lanka caused by devastating waves by more than 5,000 people on Monday, increasing estimates of the death toll from the regional catastrophe to more than 20,000 people.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- At least 160 people were killed in northeastern Sri Lanka when tsunami tidal waves caused
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[World News]: Colombo, Dec 28 : The death toll in the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka continued to mount by hundreds Tuesday, with unconfirmed reports putting it at as high as 19,000, with hundreds still missing.
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Floods and landslides caused by heavy  rains killed at least 26 people in the northern and central  Philippines, disaster officials said on Tuesday, a week after  storms left about 160 dead or missing.
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Thousands of frantic Sri Lankans searched corpse-strewn rubble for relatives along the Indian Ocean island's devastated coastline on Tuesday as the nation's death toll from a deadly tsunami rose above 12,200.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - The death toll in an Asian  earthquake and tsunami Sunday has jumped to more than 6,300,  according to officials and local media.
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At least six civilians were killed in separate incidents across Sri lanka's embattled northeast, the defence ministry here said.
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The number of dead was approaching 24,000 Monday in the wake of Sunday&#39;s South Asia earthquake and devastating tsunamis. Eight Americans have been reported dead, and US Secretary of State Colin Powell says several hundred more are missing.
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At least 25 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in fresh military attacks along the de-facto border of territory held by the guerrillas, the defence ministry said Friday.
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The death toll from massive tidal waves that struck Sri Lanka&#39;s coastline leapt to more than 12,000 on Monday as thousands of soldiers and families kept up the search for bodies.
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Indian Ocean nations 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 26,000 people reported killed.
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Fighting between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels has left 28 soldiers dead and 100 wounded, the army says.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 36 Tamil Tigers in the island's north, taking the death toll from fierce fighting at the weekend to 79, most of them rebels, the military said on Monday.
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At least 26 people die in clashes between security forces and Maoists in western Nepal, the army says.
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Colombo, Dec 27: The death toll in the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka reached 12,000, including at least 70 foreigners while many were reported still missing as rescuers today frantically searched for survivors and engaged in reaching aid and medical care