Indonesia addition raises tsunami death toll to 221,100

Thursday, January 20, 2005

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Indonesia's Health Ministry declared Wednesday that more than 70,000 people previously listed as missing are dead, significantly raising its estimate for the death toll from last month's tsunami.

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