The picture here is of the city of Banda Aceh (Banda Aceh), a city in the north of Jakarta that was close to the epicenter of the earthquake and tsunami and which was completely washed away. Ten thousand people died in this city alone.
As of writing, the death toll in the Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster on 26/12/2004 has reached 150. 5 million people are left without clean water, food and basic sanitation.
The picture here is of the city of Banda Aceh (Banda Aceh), a city in the north of Jakarta that was close to the epicenter of the earthquake and tsunami and which was completely washed away. Ten thousand people died in this city alone.
As mentioned at the beginning of the new year, the number of people killed in the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia reached 150,000. In many countries in Asia and some in Europe, including Sweden, the New Year's celebrations were turned into mourning and memorial rallies. In many places, mass burning of bodies or their burial in mass graves continues. Almost a week after the disaster, about 7,000 tourists are still missing.
Contrary to previous estimates, it now turns out that Indonesia suffered the largest number of deaths, about 80,000. In Sri Lanka, about 27,000 people died in the disaster. About a million people, 5% of Sri Lanka's population, were affected in some way by the disaster. 750,000 residents were left homeless. Tens of thousands fled the coastal area due to the fear of additional tsunami waves. The tourism area in the southeast of the country suffered the worst damage. The Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, declared the country a disaster-stricken area.
The number of dead in India stands at 13,000, of which about 7,000 are in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The two groups of islands were hit by several aftershocks with a magnitude of up to 5.6 on the Richter scale during the last few days, but no casualties are known. Hundreds of thousands were left homeless there. Following the disaster, the Indian government intends to develop a system that will warn against tsunami waves. According to sources in New Delhi, the system will be installed in about two and a half years, and its cost is estimated at about 27 million dollars.
In Thailand, about 4,500 were killed in the disaster, of which 2,230 were tourists. It is estimated that thousands more bodies have yet to be found. Millions of residents of the affected countries lost their homes.
The list of aid organizations for the survivors of the tsunami on the Google website as directed from the Universe Today website
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