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, there expecting more because of the people that got sucked back out to see to to wash ashore as well 
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ral Posted: Dec 28 2004, 11:56 PM
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Was reading this in BBC, really breaks my heart.
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Last Updated: Tuesday, 28 December, 2004, 23:40 GMT
EReporters' log: Asia disaster
As aid efforts get under way in response to the Asian quake disaster, the BBC's correspondents report from affected areas around the region.
Tuesday 28th December
Jonathan Head : Phuket, Thailand : 2209 GMT
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The tourist toll here is simply unknown. There were a whole load more who were out at sea, who were swept away and may never be found.
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Nick Bryant : Cuddalore, India : 2206 GMT
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They spent much of the last 24 hours digging up bodies, many of them young children. They simply couldn't run as fast as the adults.
In some of these wrecked buildings there are still bodies under the rubble. We know they are there because we can smell them.
Dumeetha Luthra : Galle, Sri Lanka : 1800 GMT
Loudspeakers here have been asking residents to lay bodies out for collection and burial.
The hospital is overflowing. It held a mass funeral for the victims who still hadn't been claimed by relatives, victims of a train that was derailed by the onslaught of the wave.
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Matthew Grant : Madras, India : 1735 GMT
Unicef has already received reports of outbreaks of diarrhoea amongst survivors. Disease could now spread quickly, as many are huddled together in makeshift camps. Getting clean water to them is critical.
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Chris Hogg : Phuket, Thailand : 1725 GMT
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One half-naked man hung from the twisted timbers of what was left of his room. He looked like he'd been crucified.
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Sunil Raman : Tamil Nadu, India : 1640 GMT
The people of Tharangampadi in Nagapattinam district of the southern state are still looking for their dead - fishing them out of ponds, pulling a few from tree tops and pulling some from beneath collapsed huts.
The stench of rotting bodies has filled the air and vultures hover above.
Nagapattinam district headquarters is the worst hit. Tens of thousands of huts were washed away. Dinesh, a young fisherman said, "I do not know where my boat is. I have nothing left. I am left just with the clothes on my body".
Chris Hogg : Phuket, Thailand : 1630 GMT
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We heard today that there aren't enough coffins and those that they do have are often too small for the bodies which have been bloated after sitting in the water for 48 hours.
Chris Hogg : Phuket, Thailand : 1550 GMT
Phuket's hospitals have been completely overrun.
One if the concerns that the doctors have is that, because it's more than two days since a lot of the people they are treating were injured, many have had open wounds for more than 48 hours, so a lot of people have infections.
Roland Buerke : Galle, Sri Lanka : 1450 GMT
The dead are being buried with extreme haste and little ceremony.
Outside the main hospital in Galle today there were dozens of bodies lined up in the open air, waiting to be buried.
I spoke to a tourist today who had just come in from the town of Unawatuna and he said people were being buried there as well very quickly, including tourists.
Apparently the people who are burying them are trying to make a note of where the graves are and if they find a passport they are taking a note of that too, in the hope that perhaps one day those remains might be returned to their home countries.
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Roland Buerke : Galle, Sri Lanka : 1345 GMT
To the north of Galle, yet more tragedy has been discovered.
A train was caught in the tidal wave and swept off the tracks, reports say of the sixteen hundred on board, just three hundred got out alive.
Relief is now arriving in the town, helicopters are flying continuous sorties, bringing supplies in from ships at sea.
But all along Sri Lanka's coast, perhaps a million are homeless, and they're facing another night out in the open.
Chris Hogg : Phuket, Thailand : 1300 GMT
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Most of the bodies recovered have been piled up in a temple, which has been turned into makeshift mortuary.
Rachel Harvey : Aceh, Indonesia : 1105 GMT
The further you travel along the road to Banda Aceh the worse the situation becomes.
We stopped at a local Red Cross post where rows of dead bodies had been piled up. Some were covered in orange plastic sheeting, but others were left exposed to the sun.
Officials told us up to two thousand corpses had been collected at this one point. But they're gradually being taken away in trucks to be buried in mass graves.
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Chris Hogg : Phuket, Thailand : 1055 GMT
The Thais say they expect the number of casualties to double over the next few days, as the relief teams reach more far flung islands.
Geeta Pandey : Port Blair, Andaman Islands : 0750 GMT
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The aftershocks continue to jolt an already shaken population and hundreds of people have been sleeping outside on the streets or in their cars out of fear.
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You meen to gather them for FOOD?wuvmybetta said:Thanks for posting that,Daniel. It's all just so devastating, we really can't even imagine what it's like from the handful of news clips we see on TV.
As if all the dead people aren't bad enough, they're having such a hard time wth animal corpses. They really don't have time to deal with that as well. Plus the contamination...ugggh, just so much for them to deal with at once. On top of all the work they have this huge gaping hole of mourn and trauma.
Bless their hearts and souls.
I've heard that the dead corpses go beyond your chicken,cat and dog because the sea brought sharks and fish in with it as well. I read somewhere that that is the reason why so many were on the beach in some areas. Fish were washing up like crazy so they ran down to gather them,many sent their children to do it.
I do believe that this is so much deeper than any of us even realize. On many,many levels.
from what i hear its like a big meat grinder, the water picks up lose sediment, glass, wood, everything and just fires it off in all diections. And the water hitting you is like getting hit with a wall of sand bags, when water moves at 100 mph it has mass. makes me sick thinking about it all i know this is a place about fish but maybe we should all collect up some money and donate it to help them.
yes, we were finally able to get in contact with her family, they all live in bangkok but we didn't know if any of them had gone on holidays to seaside resorts, luckily they all decided to stay home this year.cutechic said:Sorry if you've already answered this already, but did your wife get in contact with her family, bkk?
