30 Aralık 2004 Perşembe

Tsunami Death Toll Passes 100K

Around noon today, the the Red Cross speculated that the death toll from the Jakarta Tsunami might pass 100,000. Well, as of 23 minutes ago, Yahoo! News reported that the death toll has just passed 117,000.
Pilots dropped food to Indonesian villagers stranded among bloating corpses Thursday, while police in a devastated provincial capital stripped looters of their clothing and forced them to sit on the street as a warning to others. The death toll topped 117,000, and officials warned that 5 million people lack clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and medicine...Around the Indian Rim and beyond, families endured their fifth day of ignorance as to the fate of friends and relatives who had taken a holiday-season vacation to the sunny beaches of Thailand, India and Sri Lanka, which bore the brunt of the tsunami. Thousands were still missing, including at least 2,500 Swedes, more than 1,000 Germans and 500 each from France and Denmark.
And yes, they are actually bothering to tell us how many Americans have died. 14, if anyone seriously cares.



Apple also has up a list of charities active in the region who need donations.

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