Saturday, January 8 2005 12:20 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Jakarta: The number of dead in the earthquake and tsunamis devastated Indian Ocean coastlines on December 26 neared 1,60,000 today (Jan 8, 2005) after Indonesia added almost 6,000 more victims to its toll.

Indonesia's Social Affairs Ministry's relief coordination centre said a total of 1,07,039 died from the tsunami while some 15,420 others remain unaccounted for.

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

In Sri Lanka, 30,680 were confirmed killed, the Government said. Another 4,883 people were still missing, while the number of people displaced by the catastrophe was around 578,224, according to Government figures.

In neighbouring India, the official toll passed 10,000 with the number of missing at 5,689, most of them presumed dead.

The death toll in Thailand climbed above 5,300, but the number of missing kept dropping as authorities double-checked initial reports, the interior Ministry said.

Fourteen more people were confirmed dead today, bringing the death toll to 5,305. The list of missing dropped by more than 70, as authorities revised their figures to 3,498 missing.

Myanmar's Prime Minister Soe Win said 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.