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BANDA ACEH, JAN. 8. The official death toll from the Asian tsunami climbed past 150,000 on Saturday, as Indonesian authorities increased their tally by nearly 3,000 while adding tens of thousands to their count of the number left homeless from the disaster. Officials expect the toll to rise further still. Indonesia's toll has risen sharply in recent days as teams of rescuers recover corpses from remote regions near the epicentre of the magnitude-9.0 quake that spawned a tsunami affecting 11 countries in Africa and Asia. Aid workers struggled on Saturday to reach the survivors — and provide for their needs. Staggered by the scale of the disaster, aid officials described plans to feed as many as 2 million survivors a day for six months. ``I must say, the World Food Programme is in the disaster response business ... and this truly is the most extraordinary physical natural disaster I have ever seen,'' World Food Program Executive Director, James Morris, told reporters after viewing the battered coast. ``The damage is overwhelming, the loss of property, the loss of life, injury to people and the risk going forward is enormous.'' The increase in number of dead came even as authorities held out little hope for the tens of thousands still missing. Officials in Sri Lanka and Thailand, which were also hard-hit by the killer waves, say thousands were unlikely to be found alive. Sweden, Britain and France have warned they feared that nearly 1,100 of their citizens missing in the disaster were dead.
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Nearly two weeks after huge waves struck, the lists of missing were still rising. Sri Lanka, with more than 30,000 known dead, added 528 names to its ranks of missing on Friday, for a total of 4,984. Indonesia, the worst hit country, estimates 104,055 dead and just over 10,000 missing. Aid groups complained that dignitaries flying in to visit the tsunami-devastated coast in recent days have choked the region's tiny main airport and hampered relief supplies. Visits by the U.N. Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, and the U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, have shut provincial capital Banda Aceh's only airport temporarily for security reasons. That has clogged incoming shipments.
— AP
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