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Death toll in Asia quake-tsunamis rockets to over 48,000

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2004-12-28 23:54:09

JAKARTA, Dec. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- On the third day
since the powerful earthquake-tsunamis that struck some
South and Southeast Asian countries, latest reports from
the affected nations put the death toll to more than
48,000 in the region.

At least 21,000 people are believed to have been
killed by the earthquake and tsunamis in Indonesia, a
government official said Tuesday.

Purnomo Sidik, national disaster director at the
Social AffairsMinistry, told reporters that "the latest
reports we have receivedis that in Banda Aceh and its
surroundings alone there are about 9,000 dead while in
Meulaboh, the other hardest hit district, reports from
the district chief says there are about 10,000 dead."

He also put the death toll from other regions to
"something more than 2,000."

Sri Lanka's government said on Tuesday more than
18,700 people were confirmed dead two days after a
tsunami battered the island.

The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the
Indian Ocean on Sunday, which sent high waves crashing
onto Sri Lanka's easternand southern shores.

Thailand's death toll of Sunday's tsunami has raised
over 1,500with more and more corpse discovered by rescue
teams, the state-run Thai News Agency reported on Tuesday
night.

"A brief government announcement at 16:00 this
afternoon put the number of dead at 1,516, with 8,432
more people injured," saidthe report.

The number is expected to further rise with search
and rescue still being carried on in the kingdom's six
southwestern provinces.

Rescue workers said there were still some 1,000
bodies in the worst-hit Phnagnga Province that they can
not reach.

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra earlier told
reporters that he expected the death toll to reach over
2,000.

In India, the Indo-Asian News Service reported
Tuesday that thenation's mounting human toll has crossed
7,500.

By official estimates southern Indian state of Tamil
Nadu and Pondicherry, a union territory in the south of
India, accounted for some 4,500 deaths, closely followed
by the Andaman and NicobarIslands in the Bay of Bengal
with around 3,000 fatalities and another 2,000 missing
and presumed dead.

Hundreds of people, mainly fishermen and children,
are missing in Tamil Nadu. Andhra Pradesh state, located
in southeast India, has suffered 90 casualties and
southern Indian state of Kerala 160.With corpses still
being washed ashore, the toll is expected to rise
further.

The Maldives, which is among the countries hit by the
disaster,reported 52 deaths. The elections commission
announced Tuesday to postpone the nation's parliamentary
elections scheduled on Friday by three weeks because of
the devastating tidal waves. Enditem

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