Tens of thousands more bodies have been found in the sea and wreckage of coastal towns around the Indian Ocean, pushing the death toll from Sunday's tsunami close to 60,000.

The death toll from Sunday’s devastating tsunamis in the Indian Ocean has now topped 40,000 and expected to grow higher. As many as a third of the dead are believed to be children. Sri Lanka has ...

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The death toll in Sunday's disaster in the Indian Ocean has reached 55,000, and is expected to rise. Indonesia, where the effects from both the tsunami and the preceding earthquake were felt ...

The death toll from the tsunami in Indonesia rose to 668 as reports of fatalities came in from remote villages along Java's battered southern coast, the government said.

A mass burial of earthquake and tsunami victims began in Indonesia Monday as the death toll climbed to 844 and the need for equipment to dig for survivors grew increasingly desperate.

The powerful earthquake and tsunami that devastated an Indonesian island last week has left more than 1,400 people dead, according to the national disaster agency.

Seismologists have said that while the string of earthquakes in the Pacific, and the resulting tsunami in Samoa, aren't routine, it's not surprising as seismic plates shift.