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Images from South East Asia where the numbers of dead and missing are rising and the human face of the tragedy begins to unfold. Pictures show survivors from many different countries who are alone or mourning lost relatives.
Hannala Zirath from Sweden holds her
husband's hand after they were reunited
December 28, 2004 following a tsunami
which hit the Thai resort island of
Phuket. Zirath's husband, who was
injured by huge tidal waves was being
airlifted to Bangkok for treatment.
Nations on the Indian Ocean from
Indonesia to Sri Lanka struggled on
Tuesday to find and bury their dead and
help the survivors of tidal waves as the
death toll rose to 40,000 people
reported killed. REUTERS/Adrees
Latif
REF: PHU201D
Raimo Halttunen from Finland tries to
get medical attention while waiting to
be airlifted out of the Thai resort
island of Phuket December 28, 2004.
Halttunen and his wife Tarja (background)
were injured by a tsunami that swept
into Phuket on Sunday. Nations on the
Indian Ocean from Indonesia to Sri Lanka
struggled on Tuesday to find and bury
their dead and help the survivors of
tidal waves as the death toll rose to 40,
000 people reported killed. REUTERS/
Adrees
Latif
REF: PHU206D
ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUALS COVERAGE
IMAGES OF DEATH AND INJURYA Thai
woman searches for her relatives among
the bodies of victims in Phang Nga
province, about 788 km (489 miles) south
of Bangkok, December 28, 2004. Nations
bordering the Indian Ocean from
Indonesia to Sri Lanka clawed through
the wreckage of a devastating tidal wave
triggered by an earthquake for bodies to
bury on Tuesday as the death toll rose
to 40,000 people reported killed.
REUTERS/Chaiwat
Subprasom
REF: PHA19D
A woman holds a telephone receiver while
waiting outside a mortuary to receive
the body of her son who was killed when
a tsunami hit on Sunday in Cuddalore,
180 km (112 miles) south of the Indian
city of Madras December 28, 2004.
Nations bordering the Indian Ocean from
Indonesia to Sri Lanka clawed through
the wreckage of a devastating tidal wave
triggered by an earthquake for bodies to
bury on Tuesday as the death toll rose
to 40,000 people reported killed.
REUTERS/Arko
Datta
REF: CUD14D
Radhika, 8, a survivor of Sunday's
tsunami, sits on a hospital bed in
Cuddalore, 180 km (112 miles) south of
the Indian city of Madras December 28,
2004. Nations bordering the Indian Ocean
from Indonesia to Sri Lanka clawed
through the wreckage of a devastating
tidal wave triggered by an earthquake
for bodies to bury on Tuesday as the
death toll rose to 40,000 people
reported killed. REUTERS/Arko
Datta
REF: CUD12D..
Relatives of a tsunami victim cry before
her coffin in Koralawella, south of
Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 28, 2004.
Thousands of frantic Sri Lankans
searched corpse-strewn rubble for
relatives along the India Ocean island's
devastated coastline on Tuesday as the
death toll rose to 40,000 people
reported killed. REUTERS/Anuruddha
Lokuhapuarachchi
REF: COL07D
Janette Strum from Sweden, weeps as her
16-year-old injured son, Matias, lies
near her while they wait to be airlifted
out of the Thai resort island of Phuket
December 28, 2004. Strum's 13-year-old
son, Jonathan, is still missing after a
quake-triggered tsunami swept into the
popular tourist resort on Sunday,
killing hundreds. REUTERS/Adrees
Latif
REF: PHU202D
Asitha Fernando, a nine-year-old Sri
Lankan boy, mourns the death of his
mother in Koralawella, south of Colombo
Sri Lanka December 28, 2004 who was
killed when a tsunami hit the area on
Sunday. Thousands of frantic Sri Lankans
searched corpse-strewn rubble for
relatives along the India Ocean island's
devastated coastline on Tuesday as the
nation's death toll from a deadly tidal
wave triggered by an earthquake rose
above 12,200. REUTERS/Anuruddha
Lokuhapuarachchi
REF: COL01D
One-year-old Hannes Bergman of Sweden,
whose mother is missing after Sunday's
tsunami, is held by a caretaker at a
hospital in Thailand's tourist island of
Phuket on December 28, 2004. Indian
Ocean nations from Indonesia to Sri
Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and
bury their dead and get water and other
emergency supplies to survivors of the
tsunami. Hannes' three-year-old brother
Nils and father Carl, who were on
Mukdara Beach, survived but his mother
Cecilia is missing. REUTERS/Bazuki
Muhammad
REF: PHU51D2
ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUALS IMAGES OF
DEATH AND INJURYAn Indian woman
mourns the death of her relative in
Cuddalore, 180 km (112 miles) south of
the Indian city of Madras, December 28,
2004, who was killed when a tidal wave
hit on Sunday. Rescue workers pulled
corpses from canals and water-logged
fields in India on Tuesday, as the
government warned the death toll of
almost 9,400 from a tsunami, which was
triggered by an earthquake, that lashed
the country's south would rise further.
REUTERS/Arko
Datta
REF: CUD09D
Sabine Jacobi (L) from Hamburg, Germany,
hugs her boyfriend Olaf Barsch after
they were reunited December 28, 2004
following a tsunami which hit the Thai
resort island of Phuket several days
earlier. Nations on the Indian Ocean
from Indonesia to Sri Lanka struggled on
Tuesday to find and bury their dead and
help the survivors of tidal waves as the
death toll rose to 40,000 people
reported killed. REUTERS/Adrees
Latif
REF: PHU205D
Tarja Halttunen from Finland waits to be
airlifted out of the Thai resort island
of Phuket December 28, 2004. Halttunen
and her husband Raimo were injured by a
huge tidal waves that hit the resort
island on Sunday. Nations on the Indian
Ocean from Indonesia to Sri Lanka
struggled on Tuesday to find and bury
their dead and help the survivors of
tidal waves as the death toll rose to 40,
000 people reported killed. REUTERS/
Adrees
Latif
REF: PHU203D
