BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) – The mercilessness of Asia’s tsunami grew clearer on Thursday as worst-hit Indonesia sharply raised its death toll, taking the number of fatalities around the whole Indian Ocean region above 120,000.
– Yahoo News
More than 115,000 people are dead following Sunday’s huge earthquake that sent walls of water crashing across the Indian Ocean, officials in affected areas said today. U.N. relief workers have arrived in Indonesia’s Aceh province to find devastation in the region, where as many as one in four people are reported to have died.
– CNN
New figures reveal at least 112,000 people died in Sunday’s ocean disaster.
Officials in Indonesia say the number killed there is now nearly 80,000 and the death toll from the worst-hit area is set to rise still higher.
– BBC News