Wednesday, December 29, 2004
6:08 AM
Giggs yet again ...
just finish the match. Man Utd won 1-0 against Aston Villa. will be another half an hour before i start preparing for school. Lesson today will be from 8-11. Short day .. but will be having a final driving revision at 1.55pm. Hope my eyes will still be open by then. Anyway befpre the kick-off just now .. the players observed a minute of silence .. for the quake victims.
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CNN has confirmed that the giant waves killed 33,586 people, but that number is expected to climb dramatically as authorities reach remote areas that were hard hit.
There have been other reports of deaths that CNN has not confirmed that would bring the death toll to between 52,000 and more than 60,000.
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More than two days after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the westernmost portion of Indonesia's northern Sumatra Island, the official death toll stands at over 33,000.
But that number could be deceiving. Officials could not reach some remote areas, like Indonesia's Aceh province, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands and the Maldives, until Tuesday, and once there, they found scenes much worse than they imagined.
"The center of Banda Aceh has been absolutely devastated," said CNN's Mike Chinoy from the capital of Aceh province. "There are still bodies lying in the street."
