The death toll from an earthquake off Indonesia on Sunday and tsunamis that it unleashed reached 7Â 428 with officials reporting deaths in seven countries in southern and southeastern Asia.
Sri Lanka was hard hit with 3Â 225 people confirmed dead, 1Â 600 injured and many more missing, the military and Tamil Tiger rebels said.
Almost 2Â 000 people were killed in southern India, with the chief minister of Tamil Nadu announcing 1Â 567 in her state alone.
In Indonesia at least 1Â 878 people were confirmed dead when the quake and tidal waves hit the island of Sumatra, the health ministry told AFP.
In southern Thailand at least 279 people were killed, including foreign tourists at famous seaside resorts, and 5z7nbsp;000 injured, officials said.
In Malaysia at least 29 people were drowned and many others were missing, officials said.
A British tourist and 14 other people died in the low-lying Maldives, officials and residents said.
In Bangladesh a father and child were killed after a tourist boat capsized from large waves, local officials said.
The US Geological Survey said the earthquake registered west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra measured 8,9 on the Richter scale. – Sapa-AFP