'Disease could double death toll to 120,000'
The confirmed deaths in a mammoth Asian quake and tsunami soared above 60,000 today as worst-hit Indonesia readied bulldozers to dig mass graves for corpses in a rush to ward off disease, which the UN health agency said could double the toll.
Tens of thousands of people were still missing across a dozen countries from Indonesia to Sri Lanka to Somalia. The millions of people whose homes were swept away or wrecked by raging walls of water Sunday struggled to find shelter.