Death, devastation, tears, relief

12/30/04
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Thai men try to identify family members among hundreds of bodies in front of a temple in Thaplamu, nearly 100 km north of the Thai resort island of Phuket on December 29. Stricken countries on the Indian Ocean worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of bodies, as experts warned disease could kill as many people as the 68,000 already dead from the violent crush of Sunday's tsunami. — Reuters

Thai men try to identify family members among hundreds of bodies in front of a temple in Thaplamu, nearly 100 km north of the Thai resort island of Phuket on December 29. Stricken countries on the Indian Ocean worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of bodies, as experts warned disease could kill as many people as the 68,000 already dead from the violent crush of Sunday's tsunami. — Reuters