Thursday, January 6 2005 15:30 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Jakarta: The number of people killed when an earthquake and Tsunamis devastated Indian Ocean coastlines on December 26 passed 1,46,000 today (Jan 6, 2005) as more deaths were confirmed.

In Indonesia, which bore the brunt of the disaster, the death toll stood at 94,200, the Health Ministry said. Another 6,700 people were listed as missing.

The United Nations has warned that tens of thousands more dead may be as yet unaccounted for in Indonesia.

In Sri Lanka, 30,513 were confirmed killed, while a further 3,870 were listed as missing, the President's office said.

Interior Ministry figures for Thailand put the death toll at 5,288 - 2,510 of them foreign holidaymakers. The number of people listed as missing fell sharply to 3,716, from nearly 4,500, as some people were found to have made reports of missing people at several centres, an official said.

Myanmar's Prime Minister Soe Win said today 59 people were killed in the Tsunamis and more than 3,200 left homeless. This was down from the UN's estimated 90.

At least 82 people were killed and another 26 were missing in the Maldives, a Government spokesman said.

Sixty-eight people were dead in Malaysia, most of them in Penang, according to police, while in Bangladesh a father and child were killed after a tourist boat capsized in large waves, officials said.

Fatalities also occurred on the east coast of Africa where 298 people were declared dead in Somalia, 10 in Tanzania and one in Kenya.