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TSUNAMI DEATH TOLL NEARING 90,000 -- FIVE MILLION HOMELESS...30/12/4 |
Five million homeless as tsunami death toll nears 90,000
12/30/2004 8:33:00 AM GMT
At least five million people have been displaced by the deadly tsunamis
that struck 11 countries across Asia and Africa on Sunday and killed
nearly 90,000 people, the World Health Organisation said.
"We estimate that up to five million people have been displaced and are
at risk across the region," Harsaran Pandey, spokeswoman for the WHO in
South Asia, told reporters on Thursday.
According to the global health, about three million of those affected
were in Indonesia, with another one million in Sri Lanka. The rest were
spread between India, the Maldives and other countries in South Asia.
The confirmed death toll rose to 82,847 on Wednesday but health and
humanitarian organisations expect it to rise during the coming days, as
rescuers are struggling to reach remote Islands and affected areas, and
grieving survivors are searching amidst the ruins for their missing
family members.
"Entire villages have been washed away," said Rod Volway, program
manager for CARE Canada's Emergency Response Team, one of the first aid
organisations that flied to Indonesia's northern Aceh province, the
most affected area.
"This isn't just a situation of giving out food and water. Entire towns
and villages need to be rebuilt from the ground up. Everything has been
destroyed."
Numerous tales of generosity and heartwarming emerged in the stricken
countries amid the chaos and grief. Throughout the 11 affected
countries; Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and India, people came to
help, donate clothes and food and tend the wounded.
Others helped with a more grisly task; collecting the corpses that
littered the beaches and streets and threaten public health.
"I heard that they needed some help, so I came," said Sangitan
Senaphan, a 20-year-old volunteer at a hospital in Phuket, Thailand.
"I just want to help people," said hotelier Khun Wan who offered free
food and accommodation to foreign tourists struggling to cope with the
disaster.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra predicted that Thailand's
death toll could approach 6,800, as European nations joined Thais in
trying to trace thousands of missing people.
According to Thai interior ministry 1,975 people are confirmed killed
-- including 146 Europeans -- and 6,043 are missing.
Sweden and Germany reported that more than 1,000 of their nationals are
unaccounted for, while 446 Norwegians and several hundred French are
still missing.
Families across the region opened their homes to grieving survivors,
and strangers offered thei shirts to foreigners in swimwear.
Irene Nicastro, a Dutchwoman who was forced to flee her hotel room in
Galle in southern Sri Lanka filled with water, said she was touched by
the generosity shown to her by locals.
"Despite their own losses, they took care of us," she said.
"This is the time to help these people who are so good and strong,
truly strong," she said.
Also the Sri Lankan government called on the international community to
step up financial aids, with the president's relief co-coordinating
unit saying about 22,493 people were killed by the tsunamis.
The death toll continues to rise in most of the devastated countries.
According to a UN official, the toll in Indonesia alone could reach
80,000.
Indonesia's death toll has already topped 45,000, and the nightmare
continued Thursday as lawlessness broke out in panic-stricken areas.
In Sri Lanka alone, 19,000 were confirmed dead, while tolls continued
to rise in India, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and Myanmar.
With rescuers struggling to reach remote areas despite generous pledges
of help, the region is threatened with unprecedented crime waves as
looters ran amok unchecked by military and police tied up in the relief
effort.
Thousands of corpses rotted in the sun filled the streets in India,
Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and all 11 countries that were hit by the
tsunami, and those who escaped the disaster are in daily struggle for
survival.
Experts warn that disease epidemics could double the death toll in
Asia's devastating tsunami.
According to experts, rotting corpses, smashed sewers and contaminated
water combined with a lack of food and shelter, along with
mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever and malaria, could kill
tens of thousands of the tsunamis survivors.
"The immediate terror associated with the tsunamis and the earthquake
itself may be dwarfed by the longer term suffering of the affected
communities," said David Nabarro, the top official at the World Health
Organisation dealing with humanitarian crises.
"There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from
communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami," he added.
Guido Bertolaso, an Italian civil emergency chief who is coordinating
European Union rescue operations, warns that diseases will bring the
death toll over 100,000, as residents of the devastated areas are
already suffering shortage of food and medicine.
Meanwhile, the UN disaster relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, said that
relief operations to help the survivors of this disaster would be the
biggest in history. He called for the immediate burial of the victims
and the disposal of dead animals before they infect drinking water.
"We face a huge challenge due to the vast area affected," Markku
Niskala, secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies, said in Geneva.
"We haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg yet," he added.
Last month, 26 people were killed when a series of successive powerful
earthquakes that hit Alor island in eastern Indonesia.
Indonesia, which consists of 17,000 islands, is prone to seismic
upheaval due to its location on the margins of tectonic plates that
form the so-called the "Ring of Fire" around the Pacific Ocean basin.
Sunday's earthquake came three days after an 8.1 quake struck the ocean
floor between Australia and Antarctica, shaking buildings, hundreds of
miles away, yet causing no serious damage or casualties.
Earthquakes reaching a magnitude 9 are very rare.
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