Date:30/12/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/12/30/stories/2004123014190100.htm

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80,000 dead in Asia

BANDA ACEH (INDONESIA), DEC. 29. Confirmed deaths from Asia's tsunami catastrophe pushed past 80,000 today.

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, could wipe out weakened survivors in their tens of thousands, United Nations and other experts warned.

— AFP