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A search-and-rescue team today found the body of a 22-year-old British woman who went missing earlier this month during a whitewater rafting trip in Thailand.

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SOLDIERS used bulldozers yesterday to push into a strip of Thai luxury resorts destroyed by tidal waves and picked the bodies of European tourists from ruined gardens and suites as the death toll climbed to 2,000.

Wed, 29 Dec, 2004

Tourists back on the beach while others lie dead in the open

Volunteers dragged scores of bodies from Thai beaches, inland pools and once-luxury hotels today with the prime minister saying the death toll from earthquake-powered tidal waves could pass 2,000.

Tue, 28 Dec, 2004

Fields of death found north of Phuket

Volunteers dragged scores of corpses from beaches, inland pools and once top-class hotels today with the prime minister of Thailand saying the death toll from earthquake-powered tidal waves could pass 2,000.

Tue, 28 Dec, 2004

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