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Japan's pet survivors face post-tsunami struggle

Hungry, hurt and separated from owners who are either dead or in evacuation centres, hundreds of family pets are struggling to survive in the desolation of Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeast coast.

Sitting silent in their classroom, the 30 children whose parents have not come to collect them after tsunami swept away their town

Even amid the carnage and despair of Japan's tsunami victims, the plight of the 30 children at Kama Elementary School is heartbreaking. They sit quietly in the corner of a third-floor classroom where they have waited each day since the tsunami swept into the town of Ishinomaki for their parents to collect them. So far, no one has come and few at the school now believe they will.

Japan tsunami survivor Hiromitsu Shinkawa found 10 miles out at sea

A 60-year-old man has been found on the roof of his floating house nearly 10 miles out at sea, two days after the tsunami that devastated the north-east coast of Japan.

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Indonesia tsunami toll hits 343 as bodies found

KRISTEN GELINEAU and ACHMAD IBRAHIM My Way New 10/28/2010

Indonesian tsunami kills 272

My Way News 10/27/2010
Indonesia tsunami toll hits 343 as bodies found

Rescuers searching islands ravaged by a tsunami off western Indonesia raised the death toll to 343 Thursday as more bodies were found and said the number is likely to climb higher because hundreds of missing people may have been swept away.

Indonesian tsunami kills 272

Planes and helicopters packed with rescue workers and supplies landed for the first time Wednesday on remote Indonesian islands that were pounded by a 10-foot (three-meter) tsunami, sweeping away villages and killing at least 272 people.

1,000 homeless in Solomon Islands after quake

Landslides and a tsunami unleashed by a major earthquake destroyed about 200 houses on one of the Solomon Islands, leaving about one-third of the population homeless, a disaster management official said Tuesday.

Asia marks tsunami's fifth anniversary with prayers

PATONG, Thailand (Reuters) - Thousands of saffron-robed Thai monks chanted and prayed for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Saturday as Asia marked the fifth anniversary of one of history's worst natural disasters.

Thais commemorate thousands killed by 2004 tsunami

Thousands of Thais made Buddhist merit Saturday at Takuapah in Phang-Nga province for the estimated 8,000 people killed by the December 26, 2004 tsunami.

Samoa plans mass burial, at least 180 feared dead in tsunami

APIA, Samoa — Samoa is planning a mass burial for victims of the tsunami that devastated the Pacific island earlier this week, the government said, as the death toll from the disaster crept towards 200.


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