Bodies of dead tourists line Thai beaches
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KHAO LAK, THAILAND - Emergency crews in Thailand struggled Tuesday to identify hundreds of tourists killed when a tsunami roared through southern resorts - even as an endless stream of trucks delivered new bodies.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - The tsunami which ripped  apart tourist-packed Khao Lak beach in south Thailand may have  killed 3,000 people there, local police said on Wednesday.
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BANGKOK,  - More than 700 foreign tourists are believed to have died when tidal waves smashed into southern Thailand over the weekend, the deputy interior minister said.
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As ash from cremation fires drifted through the air around the devastated beach resort of Khao Lak last night, Thai soldiers unloaded numbered bodybags from a lorry at a graveyard in Bangmuang.
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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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PHUKET, Thailand The towering waves that roared ashore on the beaches of Thailand&#39;s resorts Sunday swept away sunbathers and snorkelers, bungalows and cars, and sent thousands of tourists fleeing for higher ground.
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The number of fatalities in Thailand almost doubled yesterday as the full extent of the carnage the tsunami had wreaked on an idyllic coast packed with expensive resorts became clearer.
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Relief operations are under way in Thailand&#39;s hard-hit resort islands, where it is feared hundreds of people have died from devastating tsunamis.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- Day after day, the bodies keep arriving at Wat Lam Kaen. The Buddhist temple in the Khao Lak beach section of this popular resort is one of several temples in the area that have been turned into makeshift morgues, where the calming aroma of incense has been overcome by the sulfurous smell of decay.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - As a clean up operation  finally gets into gear in this devastated Thai fishing village,  some of the survivors complain that the authorities gave  priority to foreign tourists rather than them.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - The lush vegetation is shredded, the power lines broken like matchsticks and the swimming pool is filled with thick brown mud which cannot hide the bobbing and bloated bodies.
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A Western man checks through lists of dead persons erected at the relief center at city hall in Phuket proviince, southern Thailand Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
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The first coffins with dead Swedish tourists are being flown back to the capital, Stockholm, from Thailand following the Asian tsunami disaster.
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Volunteers dragged scores of corpses from beaches, inland pools and once top-class hotels Tuesday with the prime minister saying the death toll from earthquake-powered tidal waves could pass 2,000.
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Thai officials say more than 700 people have died at Khao Lak resort in the south of the country near Phuket.
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PHANG NGA, Thailand  - Thailand is to exhume  hundreds buried after the Indian Ocean tsunami, restarting the  task of putting names to thousands of unidentified bodies,  including those of many foreign tourists.
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Soldiers are searching for bodies in treetops, families are weeping over the dead laid on beaches and rescuers are scouring coral isles for missing tourists as