Tsunami death toll rises to 225,000

[emad]

Guardian

Adam Jay and agencies
Wednesday January 19, 2005

The death toll from the Boxing Day tsunami disaster increased to more than 225,000 today as the Indonesian health ministry raised the number of dead in the country by more than 50,000.
A statement said the new figure of 166,320 was based on fresh reports from the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra. A senior ministry official said it included many people who had previously been listed.

In Sri Lanka, two government agencies met in an attempt to clarify a discrepancy of more than 7,000 in their lists of the dead, but both continued to insist theirs was the correct figure.

On Monday, the Public Security Ministry said 38,195 people had died, while the National Disaster Management Centre said 30,920 had been killed. Both agencies expect the final Sri Lankan figure to exceed 40,000.

The expected British toll continues to fall. The prime minister, Tony Blair, today told the House of Commons that the number of Britons classed as "most likely to have been lost" was now 274, including 53 confirmed dead, a decrease from 410 last week.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/story/0,15671,1394003,00.html

[JI7]

1. no words

[uppityperson]

2. my heart breaks n/t

[Chico Man]

3. Someone here predicted 250K with certainty

It is so sad that you were so right.

[jackster]

4. yet the coronation begins....

weeping for the world


WORLD, PLEASE FORGIVE US FOR GEORGE W. BUSH!

[DenverDem]

5. If only there were similar sympathy for the 100,000+ civilians

washed away by the bushler blitzkreig in Iraq.