JAKARTA: The death toll from the Indian ocean tsunami continued its sickening rise yesterday with more than 280,000 people now presumed dead as bodies continued to be recovered one month after the catastrophe.
Indonesia, whose Aceh province suffered destruction so severe that the full death toll will never be known, said it now had 228,429 listed as dead or as missing and presumed dead.
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