Massive earthquake and killer waves, which slammed into coastal towns and villages across south and south east Asia, killing 76,000; Red Cross says dead could exceed 100,000. Millions of people are affected and displaced in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the Maldives, and other countries.
Latest figures gathered by TamilNet, TCHR and Sri Lanka Government sources indicate a casualty figures of 21,575 dead, 10,000 still missing and 700,000 displaced in the worst ever disaster Sri Lanka has encountered by the tsunami waves that hit the island Sunday morning.
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18,000 Dead and 500,000 Displaced in the northeast December 2004
SRI LANKA Latest Tsunami toll:
Dead Toll: 21,575
Missing: 13,000
Displaced: 700,000
30 December 2004
Vadamarachi East
Death Toll - 2,100
Displaced - 61,839
Trincomalee
Death Toll - 844
Displaced - 137,000
29 December 2004
Amparai Coastal District
Death Toll: - 13,261
Displaced - 191,163
Batticaloa districts
Death toll: - 2000
Displaced families: - 208,803
Missing: - 2000's
Jaffna peninsula:
Death toll: - 2000
28 December 2004
Mullaittivu:
Death toll: - 3373
Galle, Matara, Hambantota:
Death toll: - 4000
Missing: - 8000
The Sri Lanka Red Cross Trincomalee district branch is deploying volunteers with the assistance and collaboration of ICRC, International Organization for Migrants , Danish Demining Team, Halo Trust, JRS and UNHCR has been providing emergency health services and humanitarian services to the victims who had suffered injuries due to the Tsunami Tidal waves.
Urgent Appeal for Humanitarian Assistance:
Milk food for children, clothing, blankets, bed sheets, mats, dry rations, drinking water, toilets and urgent medicines were identified as the immediate requirements for the displaced population housed in public buildings. List of urgent items:
1. Food (includes milk powder, precooked food) for 80 000 familes, 3 times/day, meals for two weeks.
2. Non food items (includes kitchen utensils, 100 000 mats)
3. Clothing and blankets (special concern for women and children)
4. Drugs (paracetamol, antibiotics, dressings, disposable syringes)
5. water purification tablets (500 000) and water containers (5 lit. capacity)
6. Temporary shelters (25,000 tents for a family of 4 and 50 medical tents) portable generators (50)
For further information contact:
Disaster management unit
Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation [TRO]
Tel: 00 94 112 693254 ( Colombo)
Tel: 00 94 21 228 3947 (killinochi)
Email:cpara@hotmail.com
http://www.troonline.org
Singapore: ACT NOW
Send the above items to Ananda Travel & Sri Lankan Airlines to be airlifted to Sri Lanka.
For small parcels/items, send your donations down to the office at 133 Cecil Street, Keck Seng Tower, #13-02, Singapore 069535 or to Ananda Travel office at 36 Robinson Road #01-01 City House, Singapore 068877
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Singaporeans Welcome to make their donations via the following organisations/individuals
Those in the region and beyond Welcome to make their contribution via various organisations
25 December 2004, 8.9-magnitude earthquake off the west coast Sumatra, Indonesia set off massive tidal waves, which slammed into coastal towns and villages across south and south east Asia, killing thousands and displaced 100 thousands of people. Millions of people are affected in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand,
the Maldives, and other countries.
29 Dec 2004
Death Toll rises to 76,000 Tsunami Victims in Asia;
Red Cross says dead could exceed 100,000
The death toll across 12 nations rises to more than 76,700. The race was on to try to prevent an outbreak of diseases
and curb food shortages among millions of homeless, which the U.N. health agency said could kill as many
as the waves and quake. While Sri Lanka said it was getting its first reports of measles and diarrhea, paramedics in southern India began vaccinating 65,000
survivors against cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A and dysentery.
Latest News: 29 December 2004 Tsunami death toll soars past 80,000 and disease threatens to push it higher With 80,763 dead, rotting corpses, smashed sewers, contaminated water and a lack of food and shelter, along with mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever and malaria..etc
Death Tolls: - 120,000
Indonesia - 79,940
Sri Lanka - 22,493
India - 10,800
Andamans - 4,000
Thailand - 1,829
Malaysia - 65
Maldives - 43
Myanmar - 90
CNA: Killer Waves
Sources and Other Relevant Links:
CNA Foreign workers in Singapore await news of loved ones 29 December 2004 SINGAPORE: The impact of the tsunami disaster has hit home for thousands of foreign workers in Singapore who come from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Groups of foreign workers gathered at Tekka Mall on Monday evening for mutual moral support, as they eagerly awaited news of their loved ones affected by the tsunamis.
ICRC sets up website to trace missing in tidal wave catastropheThe Red Cross set up a website to help families trace relatives who may be missing following the huge earthquake and devastating tidal waves.
SEARCH MISSING RELATIVES
Action by Churches Together (ACT) - Switzerland ACT members in south and south east Asia mobilize massive relief operations ACT International launches US$ 8,217 million appeal. Any funding indication or pledge should be communicated to Jessie Kgoroeadira, ACT Finance Officer (jkg@act-intl.org)
December 29, 2004 Relief and resettlement strategy for 500,000 displaced Country Heads of INGO's, UN Agencies, Diplomatic missions, EU and Donor agencies are participating in a conference tomorrow 30 December 2004 at the Planning and Development Secretariat (PDS) complex in Kilinochchi to review the current situation in the post disaster scenario.
TamilNet LTTE appeals for international assistance 29 December 2004
