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Tsunami
claims 10,000 lives
What is India News Service,
Monday, 27 December 2004, 2000 hrs IST
Huge seismic sea waves, triggered by a massive undersea earthquake off Sumatra
in Indonesia, left
over 10,000 people dead and tens of thousands homeless in India, Sri Lanka
and South-East Asia on Sunday. The toll is rising.
Tourists, fishermen, hotels, homes and cars were swept
away by walls of water unleashed by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake, centered off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, where at least 1,902 people were killed by floods and collapsing buildings, officials said. But the scope of the disaster became apparent only after waves as high as six metres (20 feet) crashed into coastal areas throughout the Indian Ocean and Andaman Sea.
Indian officials said as many as 3,500 had been killed along the southern coast. Another 250 were confirmed dead in Thailand, 100 in Malaysia and two in Bangladesh. Thousands of people were missing, many of them fishermen at sea, and rescue workers struggled against floodwaters to find and evacuate stranded victims. The death toll climbed throughout the day and was expected to grow even higher as more bodies were discovered.
Over 1,700 people were killed as Tamil
Nadu bore the brunt of the seismic sea waves triggered by an earthquake.
Bodies were found on various beaches along the southern state.
In Kerala, at least 110
people were killed and hundreds injured and displaced as tremor-triggered
tidal waves lashed Kollam and Allapuzha districts.
In Andhra Pradesh 100
people died, and 800 went missing.
More tsunami news
Info
What
is a tsunami?
Tsunami
devastates Asia
South
India struck by quake waves
Report
from
Weather Service Forecast Office,
Philadelphia
Quake
fifth largest since 1900
Relief
India Together
resource page for relief work
Regional details
400
die, thousands homeless in Kanyakumari
400 dead as waves lash Cuddalore coast
Karnataka
offers
assistance to Tamil Nadu, Andhra
Major
south Indian ports shut
When
death came calling in Pondicherry
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Response
Heartrending
scenes in hospital
Sonia
asks Andhra, Kerala CMs to provide relief
President
expresses deep shock, grief
PM
assures support to affected states
'Quakes
don't kill; human error does'
'I saw the sea eat
my wife and kids'
'Coast Guard
was first off the block'
Fishermen
brave tsunami, save drowning couple
Frantic
kin
in Kolkata,
flurry of queries
Neighbourhood
Death
toll
mounts to 4,857 in Sri Lanka
Lanka
appeals to India for help
3,000 die in Andamans
Quake,
floods kill 1,902 in Indonesia
Wall
of water batters Thai resorts
Maldives
declares emergency
Lanka
says more tsunamis on their way, UN warns of possible epidemics
Photographs
Rediff
feature
Kanchi junior Seer quizzed:
Junior Shankaracharya of the Kanchi
Mutt Vijayendra Saraswati was today interrogated for nearly 75 minutes by a
special police team for the first time after the dramatic arrest of his senior
in the Sankararaman murder case.
Ravi Subramaniam held:
The special team probing the Sankararaman murder case, on Monday arrested Ravi
Subramaniam, a key accused in the case.
Family
revives Rao\92s funeral pyre:
Television pictures of a half-burnt body of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha
Rao stirred into action his family and government officials who rushed to the
funeral site and revived the funeral pyre around midnight.
States
NHRC
order to Chief Secy on child deaths:
Taking suo motu cognizance of a news-item regarding rising child deaths in
Rajasthan, the National Human Rights Commission has directed the Chief Secretary
of the state to send a factual report within three weeks.
Sundergarh
is turf of conversion war: Tribal-dominated
Sundergarh is emerging as the new battleground for the Hindus and the Christian
missionaries. On Saturday, Bonei subdivision witnessed the return of 113
Christians to the Hindu fold through a massive "homecoming" ceremony
organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).
Penalise
political party for defacing property, says EC:
Taking a stern view of the
defacement of public property in Patna by the Rashtriya Janata Dal for the
proposed rally, the full meeting of the Election Commission today directed the
Bihar government to fix the responsibility for the violation of the Act, recover
the cost from the political party and remove all hoardings posters and other
material by December 30.
Leaders
separated from Haj cry foul: The
issue of granting permission to pilgrims for the annual Haj pilgrimage is
turning controversial in insurgency-hit Jammu and Kashmir, where authorities
have stopped 43 from proceeding to Saudi Arabia, citing their "inclination
to the separatist movement" as the main hurdle.
BJP
mulls future minus Shiv Sena: With
the Shiv Sena turning in a poor performance in last October\92s Assembly
elections in Maharashtra, its alliance partner, BJP is showing signs of forging
its future alone in the coming years.
NCW
for protecting rights of spouses in foreign land:
To discuss the decreasing sex ratio in Punjab and Haryana, a delegation of the
National Commission for Women, led by its chairperson Poornima Advani, will hold
high-level meetings with top officials from the two states in Chandigarh on
December 29.
Move
to reduce court cases in MP: The
Madhya Pradesh Government is seriously considering ways to reduce the number of
cases pending in courts. The concern was expressed by the Chief Justice of
India, Justice R.C. Lahoti, during his recent visit to Bhopal.
HIV
positive man defends petrol pump allotment: The
Delhi High Court has directed Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd to consider by
this monthend, the plea of an HIV positive patient challenging the suspension of
a petrol pump dealership allotted to him on compassionate grounds.
Neighbours
Pakistan
to float new ideas on Kashmir:
Pakistan will propose new ideas on the Kashmir issue as well as additional
nuclear and conventional confidence-building measures at the foreign
secretary-level talks opening Monday.
Four
FC men die in ambush:
Four personnel of the Frontier Corps were killed and four others injured, two of
them seriously, after their vehicle was ambushed, some 100km north of Turbat
near Buleda area close to Pakistan-Iran border.
View from abroad
US body says
J&K better than PoK: Citizens in
Jammu and Kashmir enjoy more freedom than in Pakistan-occupied-Kashimir, an
organisation rating "freedom" around the world has said.
7
Pakistanis among 31 executed in S. Arabia:
Seven Pakistanis have been executed in Saudi Arabia so far this year, an Amnesty
International report said. Most of the executions were carried out on drug or
drug-related offences.
Overall
Tsunami devastated Asia: Over 10,000 are dead in India, with Tamil Nadu
bearing the brunt.
Ravi Subramaniam was arrested: Tamil Nadu police said they had netted a
key accused in the Kanchi case.
Pakistan ready with new proposals: It said it would approach the
Kashmir issue from a new perspective.
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