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Tsunami Death Toll Could Double Due to Hunger, Disease
The hungry scavenged for food and water and the wounded flooded hospitals in Aceh as a global relief effort yesterday struggled to help survivors of the tsunami catastrophe.
Hundreds of dazed and haggard survivors roamed the streets of Banda Aceh, a city of more than 300,000 on the northern tip of Sumatra. [Herald Sun]
The United Nations warned yesterday that Asia's tsunami death toll could double to about 300,000 unless survivors received clean water and other basic services by the end of the week to prevent disease.
United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, in Indonesia for an emergency international aid summit today, flew over the worst scenes of devastation and said it was more horrifying than wars he had witnessed during decades as a soldier.
"If basic needs...are not urgently restored to all populations by the end of this week, WHO fears that outbreaks of infectious disease could result in a similar number of fatalities as occurred due to the direct impact of the tsunami," the UN agency said in a statement on the Internet. - [Stuff via The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog ]
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Posted by tim at January 5, 2005 10:17 PM
- South Asia Marks Tsunami One Month Anniversary - Remembering 447 Thousand - Jan 26, 2005
- General Public Gives Majority of Red CrossTsunami Donations - Jan 26, 2005
- Tsunami toll rises above 165,000 - Jan 07, 2005
- Tsunami Cost Estimated Over $15 Billion - Jan 05, 2005
- Tsunami Survivors at Risk of Disease and Malnutrituion - Jan 03, 2005
- Aiding Tsunami Victims - Jan 03, 2005
- Tsunami Updates - Donations Top $2 Billion - Jan 01, 2005
- Some Predict Tsunami Death Toll Over 400,000 - Dec 30, 2004
- Earthquake-Tsunami Catastrophe Toll at 114,000 - Dec 30, 2004
- Tsunami Toll Above 55,000, More Relief Needed - Dec 28, 2004
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