INDEPTH: DISASTER IN ASIA
Tsunami dead and missing
CBC News Online | Dec. 23, 2005
Calang, in west Aceh, on the island of Sumatra. (Photo: Stephen Puddicombe, CBC News)
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Months after the Dec. 26, 2004, earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Indonesia, the countries affected are still finding it difficult to determine how many people died.
Estimates ranged from nearly 200,000 to more than 300,000. Hundreds of thousands of others were left homeless.
The deaths occurred in countries in southern Asia and eastern Africa bordering the ocean:
- Indonesia: 131,934 dead, 37,066 missing
- Sri Lanka: 31,322 dead, 4,000 missing
- India: 10,750 dead, 5,550 missing
- Thailand: 5,395 dead, 2,932 missing
- Somalia: 312 dead, 158 missing
- Myanmar: 90 dead, 10 missing
- Maldives: 81 dead
- Malaysia: 68 dead, 12 missing
- Eastern Africa (Kenya, Madagascar, Seychelles, Somalia, and Tanzania): 312 dead, 158 missing
- Bangladesh: 2 dead
Volunteers from the Mexican Groundhogs Rescue Team retrieve a body in Banda Aceh. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Many of the dead and missing were visiting foreigners, including Canadians. As of Dec. 23, 2005, Foreign Affairs has confirmed that 20 Canadians died in the tsunami.
Those who have died include:
Thailand:
- Gilles Bouchard, 57, retired teacher from Gatineau, Que.
(Remains recovered)
- Rebecca Clark, 32, conservationist originally from Annapolis
Royal, N.S. (Remains recovered)
- Mathieu Lafond, 28, financial analyst from Repentigny, Que.
(Statement by relative)
- Rubina Wong, 25, of Richmond, B.C. (Body identified by
boyfriend)
- John Knill of North Vancouver (Statement by relative)
- Jackie Knill of North Vancouver (Statement by relative)
- 12 others confirmed dead
Sri Lanka:
- June Kander, 74, of Quebec City; former McGill University professor. (Remains recovered)
India:
- One dead. (Not yet identified.)
- Germany: 60 dead, 615 missing.
- Sweden: 52 dead, 786 missing.
- Britain: 53 dead, 203 missing.
- United States: 34 dead, 135 missing.
- Japan: 25 dead, 68 missing.
- Switzerland: 23 dead, 240 missing.
- Australia: 23 dead, 18 missing.
- France: 22 dead, 74 missing.
- Italy: 21 dead, 189 missing.
- Finland: 15 dead, 174 missing.
- Austria: 13 dead, 101 missing.
- Norway: 13 dead, 73 missing.
- Denmark: 12 dead, 36 missing.
- Hong Kong: 12 dead, 33 missing.
- South Korea: 12 dead, 8 missing.
- South Africa: 11 dead, 15 missing.
- Netherlands: 9 dead, about 30 missing.
- Singapore: 9 dead.
- Belgium: 6 dead, 5 missing.
- Philippines: 5 dead, 10 missing.
- Israel: 4 dead, 3 missing.
- China: 3 dead, 15 missing.
- Taiwan: 3 dead.
- New Zealand: 2 dead, 207 missing.
- Russia: 2 dead, 8 missing.
- Argentina: 2 dead.
- Brazil: 2 dead.
- Ireland: 2 dead, 5 missing.
- Mexico: 2 dead, 1 missing.
- Poland: 1 dead, 10 missing.
- Czech Republic: 1 dead, 9 missing.
- Portugal: 1 dead, 8 missing.
- Turkey: 1 dead, 5 missing.
- Colombia: 1 dead.
- Chile: 1 dead.
- Ukraine: 17 missing.
- Greece: 7 missing.
- Belarus: 5 missing.
- Hungary: 3 missing.
- Luxembourg: 3 missing.
- Estonia: 3 missing.
- Romania: 2 missing.
- Spain: 2 missing.
- Brunei: 2 missing.
- Liechtenstein: 1 missing.
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