Earthquake and powerful tidal waves kill thousands in Southeastern Asia.

I dearly hope you get some good news soon. Buck.

 

Oh my god, the death toll is increasing every hour, according to local news sources in Singapore, the latest death toll is at 18,000!
This is extreme horror...

 

Thanks BB.

As i have already said, all our help will be needed now to aid in disaster relief.



snowbound

 

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/asia.warningsystem.ap/

Fatal lack of a warning system

Monday, December 27, 2004 Posted: 10:24 AM EST (1524 GMT)

DENVER (AP) -- The catastrophic death toll in Asia caused by a massive tsunami might have been reduced had India and Sri Lanka been part of an international warning system designed to warn coastal communities about potentially deadly waves, scientists say.

 

Relief is coming quickly,

http://www.turkishpress.com/world/news.asp?id=041227123606.43j6ro5j.xml



snowbound

 

The death toll is horrifying.

Estimated over 25,000 now and rising quickly.




snowbound

 

Good News!

Poungpen's father just called me and said she has been located. She is in hospital due to exposure to flooding but otherwise, safe and sound.

A small miracle in this huge disaster.....

I'm hoping to speak directly to her soon.



snowbound

 

I am so glad snowbound!

 

some good news at last

 

Yes! That is great news.

 

Thanks all.

Iam so relieved for her and her family.

I just watched video of this disaster in Sri Lanka. It showed people being swept out to sea with the tsunami wave.

Almost unbeareable to watch. The suffering is herrendous.

Just on this tiny island, an estimated 10,000 people have lost their lives....

If u can, please donate at your local Red Cross or other relief centre. As i have already said, much help will be needed now.


snowbound

 

Glad to hear she's ok !!!!

 

Yes, the big problem now will be sanitation and lots of things broke, that need fixing to keep those alive from getting sick and second wave of deaths. Homeless... and more human suffering.

 

That's good news Snowbound !A miracle indeed.

 

Miracle survival of baby girl in Malaysia

A 20-day-old baby has been found alive floating on a mattress in her parent's damaged restaurant in northern Malaysia after the region was slammed by tsunami, reports said on Tuesday.

The child, identified as S. Tulasi, was sleeping in a room at the restaurant when the huge waves struck on Sunday in the holiday resort of Penang. The swirling waters swept her parents out of the restaurant.

Luckily, however, they later managed to claw their way back to the badly damaged building.

"Thank God the mattress was floating in about 1.5-metre deep water and my baby was crying," the baby's father, A. Suppiah, told the national news agency Bernama.

But others were not so lucky. Fisherman Zulkifli Mohd Noor, 42, and his wife lost their five children to the tidal waves.

Zulkifli said his family was collecting fish left stranded on the seabed when the sea water was briefly sucked out to sea before coming pounding back in the tidal waves, the Malay-language newspaper Utusan Malaysia reported.

"I did not for one moment think the dead fishes were a sign that a tsunami was going to crash into us just seconds later," he told the paper.

Malaysia's death toll from the tsunami stands at 60, with 100 others

 

According to the news in Singapore, the United Nations said that it would take millions of years to clean this disaster up.

 

Tsunami casualties airlifted to Singapore hospitals
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SINGAPORE : Several casualties of the tsunami that devastated parts of Asia are being airlifted into Singapore for medical attention.

Among them are American and British families who were holidaying at beach resorts when the disaster struck.

The first to be airlifted into Singapore's Gleneagles Hospital on Monday night was a family of four.

The family, believed to be American, was flown in from Krabi, a popular resort near Phuket in Thailand.

On Tuesday afternoon, a woman with an open fracture in the leg, and a British family were airlifted to Singapore on different flights from Phuket.

Both the British man and his son suffered leg fractures, while the British woman had a tear in the rib. - CNA

 

Latest update on death toll...
Total: 29,030

 

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/killerwaves/images/tsunami.swf

Click on play to see the animation.

 

(CNN) -- Two days after tsunamis swept across the Indian Ocean from Thailand to Somalia, the death toll has risen to more than 33,000 as the international community scrambles to help the region cope with the disaster.

 

LATEST NEWS: Death toll now stands at 55,000.

 

It's terrible news which we saw on TV. Several Belgians & other people still missing.
Not to speak about the damage done and epidemics breaking lose after this ordeal.
Help starts slow. Hope it will get there in time.

 

Some news reports say that some dead bodies in India are already starting to decompose.