Red Cross: Asian death toll could top 100,000

The International Red Cross raised to 68,000 the death toll from Sunday’s earthquake and tsunamis in the Indian Ocean today but a UN expert said 80,000 people could have died in one Indonesian province alone.

And the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said its own estimate was more than 77,000. It suspected the number could rise to more than 100,000.