Tsunami disaster death toll soars

Two weeks after a tsunami slammed into coastlines around the Indian Ocean, thousands of bodies were still being pulled out of the mud and world leaders visiting the region were shocked at the devastation.

“I have never seen such utter destruction mile after mile,” UN Secretary General Kofi Annan sombrely told reporters after a helicopter flight yesterday over the western coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island. “You wonder where are the people? What has happened to them?”