S.Lanka says tsunami death toll hits 4,500
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Sri Lanka said on Monday deaths in the Indian Ocean island&#39;s rebel-controlled north and east had raised the toll from the worst tsunami in memory to around 4,500 victims.
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Colombo, Dec 27 (UNI) The toll in the devastating Tsunami that swept across Sri Lanka rose to 11,500 today while about eight lakh people were displaced.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - 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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It now seems clear that nearly 27,000 people have died in the tsunami waves that hit coastlines in South and South East Asia on Sunday morning.
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At least 3,000 people died in the Andaman and Nicobar islands and 30,000 people are missing after five villages in the archipelago's south were swept away by a tsunami, officials said.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Survivors in seven countries  on the shores of the Indian Ocean scrabbled frantically through  debris and devastation for their loved ones on Tuesday as the  death toll climbed inexorably toward 40,000.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s first tsunami in 16 years has killed 500 people and the death toll is likely to exceed 1,000, the head of the Indian Ocean island&#39;s National Disaster Management Centre says.
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Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw  said on Friday the number of British victims of the Asian  tsunami may be 440, of which 49 have been confirmed dead.
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[World News]: Colombo, Dec 27 : At least 5,880 people, including 70 foreigners, were killed in Sri Lanka a day after tsunamis wreaked havoc along most of the island&#39;s coastline, the military and Tamil rebels said today.
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Sri Lanka cricket officials will meet later on Monday to discuss whether they will continue with their tour of New Zealand after devastating tsunami waves killed about 4,500 people in the country, team officials said.
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Soldiers searched for bodies in  treetops, families wept over the dead laid on beaches and  rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia  counted the cost Monday of a tsunami that killed more than  15,500.
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The death toll in the killer tsunami tidal waves Monday rose rapidly to over 16,000 across South and South East Asia. In Sri Lanka, at least 5,880 people died in the huge
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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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At least 4,300 people, mostly children and the elderly, were killed and hundreds were missing after giant tsunamis caused the worst ever disaster in Sri Lanka, prompting appeals for international help.
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At least 390 have been killed after a tsunami hit India's southern coast on Sunday, Oil Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar and officials said.
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The death toll from a deadly tsunami that devastated Thailand&#39;s southern tourist playground surged close to 400 as rescue workers worked overnight, retrieving bodies and searching for injured.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - The number of people killed in  Asia's tsunami disaster soared past 175,000 Monday after Sri  Lanka raised its death toll, while Denmark warned of possible  terror attacks against aid workers in Indonesia