Monday, December 27, 2004
11:34 PM
Dead toll reaches 23,000. Expected to rise.
Foreigners among dead---Thailand reported 35 foreigners among its dead, and Sri Lanka reported 40.
The United States said three Americans were killed. Australia said two of its citizens were confirmed dead. Denmark said two of its citizens perished, and New Zealand reported one national dead. Japanese media reported that 15 bodies in Sri Lanka appeared to be of Japanese.
Also among the missing, injured or dead were nationals of South Korea, Japan, Germany, South Africa, Hong Kong, Britain, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Sweden, Chile, Thai media reported.
Signs of carnage were everywhere on Monday. Dozens of bodies still clad in swimming trunks lined beaches in Thailand. Villagers in Indonesia picked through destroyed homes amid the smell of rotting corpses, lacking any dry ground to bury the dead.
Worst-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia had at least a million people each driven from their homes along their coastlines, and officials feared the spread of water-borne diseases such as cholera.
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23,000 bodies have been found so far. The figure is expected to rise. Damn. Ever since 911 have i not pay so much attention to news. Guess my blog will be evolving around this topic for days to come.
