Please Pray For The Victims Of The Southern Asian Earthquake!

The biggest humanitarian relief operation ever mounted was underway along Asia's devastated shores as the death toll from a massive earthquake and the tidal waves it unleashed was predicted to hit 45,000.

With the scale of the catastrophe still unfolding the confirmed death toll passed 27,500 in nine countries -- but Indonesia warned that it alone could have suffered up to 20,000 more fatalities on top of its official figure of 4,725 deaths.

Indonesia's Vice President Yusuf Kalla, who is in charge of coordinating relief efforts, said he estimated that "21,000 to 25,000 people" had been killed in Sunday's disaster.

The quake, the biggest in 40 years at 9.0 on the Richter scale, ruptured the Indian Ocean seabed off Indonesia's Sumatra island, sending huge waves thousands of kilometres (miles) to kill and destroy in countries around southern and southeast Asia and even in Africa.

Mass funerals were taking place amid scenes of traumatic grief as bodies lay rotting along coastlines throughout the region, lending weight to fears that outbreaks of disease could unleash a second wave of tragedy on a region struggling to cope with the first.

Available at http://sg.news.yahoo.com/041228/1/3pisd.html

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Ick.
I'd heard about the earthquake, but I didn't think it was that bad... I prayed for them las night not knowing how bad it was, so tonight I have some true motivation.
» desertsnowstorm on 2004-12-28 11:08:51

It was very bad and it is very sad!
To all victims, much loving to all of you.
» pandora on 2004-12-29 08:15:36

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