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NUMBER OF DEAD CONTINUES TO RISE IN TSUNAMI TRAGEDY

By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The number of dead in Southeast Asia is simply staggering. The death toll is climbing by the hour, and at last count was well over 22,000. In the aftermath of Sunday`s killer Tsunamis, survivors are trying to come to grips with their enormous losses. Victims in Sri Lanka account for about half of the dead with more than 10-thousand, 500 people killed there. More than a million others are displaced. India is reporting at least 62-hundred people dead, thouands of fishermen who were at sea when the waves hit are still missing. The Tsunamis were triggered by the most powerful quake to shake the earth in forty years. President Bush is promising U. S. aid.
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