Posted on 12/30/2004 12:21:45 PM PST by smag499
NEW DELHI: After the storm comes the deluge of questions. What if the government is understating the scale of the tragedy? How is India going about the woeful task of counting the dead? In turn, how will this affect relief mobilisation and disbursal of financial aid?
Already there are indications that the number of dead projected by authorities is way below the reality. Senior officials in Delhi are already admitting that the task before them is very complicated.
Red Cross is estimating the toll could shoot up to 1,00,000 dead (from the present 80,000) in Asia once more information comes in from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Andamans are situated just north of Sumatra, the epicentre of Sunday's quake that set off the killer waves.
Residents in several affected areas are already claiming that the number of dead projected by authorities is far way below the reality.
Mind-numbing. 0_o
That number is 100,000 not 1,000,000
So many little Islands wiped out......
From article:
"The confusion over the number of dead is worst in the case of slums where a large number of people are also floating population in search of jobs. "
Worst...wording...ever
From what Ive read,the death toll in India(including the Andaman & Nicobar island chain) is around 12,500 to 13,000.Aerial surveys of most islands in the chain have been conducted & damage in many islands has been found to be neglected.
This report honestly sounds disgusting as a number of volunteer organisations & NGOs are heading the relief operations,not the Govt.
That's one way to decrease demand on the supply of critical natural resources.
I find a million to be rather high. But while that number would seem staggering now, it would be paltry if the bad guys ever detonate a nuke in LA or SF or NYC.
That's a difficult question. Since many of the areas affected appear to have been completely wiped out, the 1,000,000 figure is not beyond the range of possibility.
Many areas which were once populated have not even been entered yet. You may remember that, in Florida, some communities were completely shut off from communication for several days. It's much more primitive where this tsunami struck.
We'll never have a truly accurate count, because many bodies will never be found. In addition, records of the inhabitants of many of these regions are incomplete and are now missing, so we may not even know who lived there, or how many.
A million isn't beyond the realm of possibility.
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In proper context, it's one million. The article is referring to number of dead across ASIA, not just India. The KNOWN dead is already over 100,000.
I know it's a typo, but I think it's implying one million.
The guess contained in the title of your thread does not appear in the source article. <
How about that? In the article, its "1,00,000."
The article indicates that the number of dead may go up to 1,00,000. What does that mean? Is there an extra "," or is there a zero missing?
Does on my computer...
"Red Cross is estimating the toll could shoot up to 1,00,000 dead (from the present 80,000)..."
The previous sidebar article speaks of 400,000 dead in Indonesia. It's entirely possible, when all is said and done, this could net over 1,000,000.
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