NYT: One-Third of the Dead Said to Be Children

[kskiska]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Dec. 28 - Survivors of the gigantic undersea earthquake on Sunday that swallowed coastlines from Indonesia to Africa - which officials now describe as one of the worst natural disasters in recent history - recovered bodies on Tuesday, hurriedly arranged for mass burials and searched for tens of thousands of the missing in countries thousands of miles apart.

The toll from the disaster - with more than 25,000 dead and many unaccounted for - came into sharper relief on a day when it seemed increasingly clear that at least a third of the dead were children, according to estimates by aid officials.

The International Red Cross and government officials here, as well as those in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, the Maldives and as far away as Somalia, warned that with hundreds of thousands of people stranded in the open without clean drinking water, epidemics of cholera and other waterborne diseases could take as many lives as the initial waves.

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http://nytimes.com/2004/12/28/international/asia/28quake.html?hp&ex=1104210000&en=e51b8fefec603d0f&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[da_chimperor]

1. Oh fuck me . . .

:cry:

[umtalal]

2. God Help Us the Children are the Dead.

I urge all to go to the Charlie Rose Board and Shut the F**k up a certain poster. I have been banned because of my views. But I think it will make a difference to tell him off.

http://boards.charlierose.com/board/topic.asp?ti=10466

Here is a sample of Tom Ballard hate:

"South Asians have been acting very uppity and haughty to Karma lately. This devestation was Karmic justice to them."

Where is this God? Where the fuck is he?

[Is It Fascism Yet]

4. geez what a jerk that tom ballard is

but its not worth registering at the site to talk to jerks. stay with us, you will be better off and more appreciated.

[umtalal]

5. Thank you a million. n/t

[WindRavenX]

6. He'll get his

And what a sick fuck for saying such horrible things about the deaths of innocent children :mad:

[umtalal]

10. I hope so. He is such a freeper. hates everything blue and lives in CALIF.

[uppityperson]

3. they were curious as to where the water went and were getting fish

I cannot express how I feel so won't even try. fuck

[Skittles]

7. I don't understand why there was no warning

surely something has to be done about this

[jdj]

8. I find it ironic that our high-tech IT jobs are going to India yet

they have no warning system for this.

Anyone else?

[Skittles]

9. with the amount of money spent in aid for them

surely we could have got 'em something to prevent such needless deaths - children in their Sunday best, on the beach - it's unbelievable. If the parents had known there was any danger they would have been yanked off those beaches.