The death toll from the earthquake and tsunamis that devastated Indian Ocean coastlines last month rose to 163Â 338 on Thursday as Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka reported new deaths.
Indonesia was hardest-hit by the December 26 quake and tsunamis, with 110Â 229 confirmed deaths and 12Â 132 people missing by Thursday, the social affairs ministry said.
In Sri Lanka, government figures issued on Thursday showed the toll had risen by 11 to 30Â 893 while the number of those reported missing had come down by 50 to 6Â 038.
In neighbouring India, more than 300 more people were confirmed dead on the Andaman islands, pushing the official death toll to 10Â 672 with 5Â 711 still missing and feared dead.
The death toll in Thailand stood at 5Â 313, but the number of missing continued to slip, down by 91 names on Thursday to 3Â 254, including 1Â 063 foreigners.
Myanmar’s Prime Minister Soe Win has said 59 people were killed in the tsunamis and more than 3Â 200 left homeless. This was down from the United Nations’s estimated 90.
At least 82 people were killed and another 26 were missing in the Maldives, a government spokesperson said.
Sixty-eight people were dead in Malaysia, most of them in Penang, according to police, while Bangladesh reported two deaths.
Fatalities also occurred on the east coast of Africa where 298 people were declared dead in Somalia, 10 in Tanzania and one in Kenya. — Sapa-AFP