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Tuesday, Dec 28, 2004

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Toll rises to 151

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, DEC. 27. The death toll in Sunday's tsunami strike in Chennai rose to 151 by Monday evening as more bodies were washed ashore, the city administration said.

The dead included 53 men, 59 women, 18 boys and 21 girls. Personnel of the Fire and Rescue Services said they recovered 17 bodies from the shores between Royapuram and Pattinapakkam.

Twenty-seven bodies of the persons who died after the tsunami hit the city remained unidentified, the Chennai Collectorate said today. The bodies of 5 men and 12 women and three children are lying in the Royapettah hospital , three bodies of men and one woman at the Government General Hospital and three male corpses at the Stanley hospital. The administration urged relatives of missing people to visit the hospitals to identify the bodies.

The Marina was cordoned off by the police after the Meteorological Centre issued a bulletin asking people to keep off the coast for the next two days. But traffic on Kamarajar Salai was heavy all through the day.

The Chennai Corporation continued with the relief work on Monday, providing food packets to the fishermen who were rendered homeless. Several organisations chipped in with their share too.

While not discouraging food items, the Corporation Commissioner, M.P. Vijayakumar, said the affected population required blankets, clothes and vessels. Organisations could either hand over their contributions to the Corporation at a special counter opened at the Ripon Buildings or they could distribute the relief materials themselves with the help of nodal officers stationed at all the fishermen's colonies that were damaged in Sunday's surge.

For contributions to the relief fund, the donors can send a demand draft drawn in favour of the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund to the Ripon Buildings.

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