Asian Disaster Death Toll Could Surpass 100,000

Agence France Presse reports the confirmed death toll from the earthquake and tidal waves is more than 55,000.

The head of Italy's civil emergency relief services, charged with coordinating all rescue operations in the region by the European Union warned the overall death toll could surpass 100,000:

"The number of victims is destined to increase over the coming days and I fear that in the end it will be more than 100,000 deaths even if we will never know the exact figure because there is no register of the population in most of the affected countries," Guido Bertolaso, director of the Italian civil protection unit said.

This going to be one of the worst natural disasters of all time.

Comments

[Alan E Brain]

In terms of numbers-of-people-killed-per-minute for several hours, yes.
120,000 people in 3 hours? But it could have been a lot worse.

Talking about which, condolences regarding the fire at your place. Sorry about the damage, but also jumping for joy that your whole family (including canaine member) made it out safely.