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Insight Special: 7 Days of
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Insight Special: Asia's
Grief
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Insight Special: Through Hell And High
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Insight Special: Surviving the
Tsunami
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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
speaks on the tsunami disaster.
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TOLL as @ 0952 SST on 3
Jan>>
(All figures
are preliminary) |
| Countries |
Deaths |
Injured |
| Bangladesh |
2 |
|
| East Africa |
137* |
|
| India |
14,872** |
|
| Indonesia |
94,081 |
up to 100,000 |
| Malaysia |
74 |
299 |
| Maldives |
74 |
|
| Myanmar |
59 |
45 |
| Sri Lanka |
29,744***
|
|
| Thailand |
4,993*** |
10,350 |
| Total |
144,036 |
- |
|
Source: Reuters
*
This figure includes Kenya, Seychelles, Somalia,
Tanzania and Madagascar.
** Indian government
says there are 14,872 dead or feared dead.
***
Sri Lanka says 5,240 are missing, most of them in
rebel controlled areas. The Tamil Tiger rebel
group says its own count of missing and presumed
dead now totalled
18,481. | |
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FOREIGNERS DEATH TOLL as @ 0942 SST on 3 Jan
>> |
Countries
Click on the country for its foreign
affairs office/ministry |
Deaths |
Missing |
| Austria### |
6 |
490 |
| Australia#### |
12 |
107 |
| Belgium |
6 |
215 |
| Brazil |
2 |
|
| Britain |
40 |
|
| Canada |
5 |
150 |
| China |
1 |
7 |
| Croatia |
1 |
9 |
| Czech Republic |
1 |
90 |
| Denmark |
7 |
91 |
| Finland |
15 |
186 |
| France* |
22 |
99 |
| Germany |
60 |
1,000 |
| Greece |
|
9 |
| Hong
Kong |
6 |
60 |
| Hungary |
|
20 |
| Iceland |
|
11 |
| Ireland |
|
20 |
| Israel |
3 |
7 |
| Italy |
18 |
660 |
| Japan |
21 |
|
| Luxembourg |
|
11 |
| Malta |
|
1 |
| Mexico |
|
15 |
| Netherlands##### |
6 |
30 |
| New Zealand |
1 |
302 |
| Norway** |
21 |
462 |
| Poland |
4 |
43 |
| Portugal |
|
8 |
| Russia*** |
1 |
|
| Singapore## |
9 |
12 |
| South Africa |
5 |
11 |
| South Korea |
10 |
10 |
| Spain |
|
11 |
| Sweden |
52 |
2,915 |
| Switzerland# |
16 |
95 |
| Taiwan |
1 |
|
| Turkey |
|
53 |
| USA |
15 |
|
| Total |
367 |
7,211 |
|
Source: Reuters
NOTES: * France has a further 560 nationals
of whom they are without
news.
**
Norway says up to 980 Norwegians are still
unaccounted for.
*** Russia says it has not
been able to make contact with around 50 of its
citizens who were in Thailand.
# Swiss Foreign
Ministry spokesman says there are 70
cases
where there is "practically no hope" and 550
Swiss
unaccounted for.
## Singapore has a
further 63 uncontactable.
### Austria's 490
missing includes 130 people it
presumes were
killed in the tsunami. A further 233 people
are
unaccounted for in Asia and Kenya.
####
Australia says some 1,200 of its nationals
are
unaccounted for.
##### The Netherlands
says some 470 additional people
are thought to
have been in the general region, but unclear
if
they were in the disaster areas
itself. | |
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| 2 January 2005: Indian
tsunami victims reach for relief goods being distributed from
the back of a truck at a fishing village on the seashore of
Cuddalore, some 185 km south of Madras. - AFP Photo |
| AFTERMATH >> |
|
Of
faith and belief ...
Across battered
shores, dozens of mosques still stand, their
minarets glinting defiantly in the sun - a
phenomenon survivors in the deeply Islamic region
credit as much to divine intervention as robust
architecture.
"God's invisible hands prevents the mosque's
destruction," said Mukhlis Khaeran, who saw the
sea sweep away his home village of Baet outside
the north Sumatran city of Banda Aceh, but leave
the neighbourhood mosque relatively intact.
Was it divine intervention that left so many
mosques untouched by the ravages of the tsunamis?
>>> |
The
Aid Workers ...
Captain Larry Burt,
commander of a helicopter air wing on the aircraft
carrier USS Abraham Lincoln: "I've never seen
anything like this. We've seen bodies 20 miles out
to sea. You just cannot describe it." |
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Crisis Hotline
Numbers
Australia: 61 1800 00 22
14
Canada: 613 944-2471
(Ottawa)
Italy: 39 063691 5551
39
063691 5552
Malaysia - Penang: 60 04 262
1819
Langkawi 60 04 966 6963
Kuala Muda: 60
04 421 1963
Netherlands: 31 (0)70 348
7770
New Zealand: 64 4 495
8111
Singapore: 65 6332-0000
Sri
Lanka: 94 11 2347061, 94 11 474 0220
94
(011) 536 0555 (Sinhala)
94 (011) 536 0444
(Tamil)
Sweden: 46 8 405 41
00
Thailand - Ministry of Foreign
Affairs: 66 2644 7249, 66 2643 5000 Ext. 5056,
5055, 5501
Bangkok: 66 2643 5262 or 66 2643
5000 Ext. 5003 / 5502
Phuket: 66 076 220
361
UK: 44 207 008 0000
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| SAFETY TIPS BY THE SINGAPORE
CIVIL DEFENCE FORCE >> |
| • |
After the tremor has stopped, do not touch
damaged electrical wiring. Report any gas
leaks. |
| • |
Call the police or SCDF if anyone has been
injured, then check your home for structural
defects and alert the relevant authorities. |
| • |
Do not use candles, matches or other
naked flames as there may be gas leaks. |
| • |
If your are outdoors, stay away from buildings
and overhead electrical cables; remain in the open
until the tremor
stops. | | |
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| ALL ABOUT QUAKES >> |
| • |
The earthquake that struck off Sumatra
measures 9.0 in magnitude according to the US
Geographical Survey, making it the world's biggest
in 40 years. |
| • |
The most powerful earthquake on record was a
9.5 in Chile in 1960. |
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The deadliest earthquake was reported in 1556
in China, Shansi when more than 800, 000 lives
were claimed by an earthquake measuring about 8.0
on the Richter scale. | |
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