Tuesday, January 11 2005 11:50 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Jakarta: The number of people killed in earthquake and tsunamis devastated Indian Ocean coastlines on December 26 rose to 157,576 today (Jan 11, 2005) as Indonesia added another 1,200 to its death toll.

Hardest-hit Indonesia has now reported 1,05,262 fatalities, with 10,046 people still missing, the social affairs Ministry said.

The Ministry said that the largest death toll was in the almost completely destroyed town of Meulaboh on the remote northwest coast of Sumatra Island were 28,251 people died.

Aid workers on the ground say many more bodies are yet to be collected.

Another seven were added to the number killed in Sri Lanka, taking the toll to 30,725 confirmed dead, the Government said. The number of people reported missing jumped from 4,939 to 5,903, latest Government figures showed on Monday (Jan 10, 2005).

The toll in Thailand yesterday dropped by two to 5,303. But 3,396 people remain missing more than two weeks after the tsunami.

Myanmar's Prime Minister Soe Win said that as on Thursday (Jan 6, 2005) 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.