Death Toll Crosses 40000 Across Asia

Shankar from USA has this information on relief centers:

"...I also got an email from Raj at the Chennai Art of Living group :

We need relief following material for working out the rehab of the people from Srinivasapuram:

• Old clothes, blankets, sheets etc.


• Usable but old material such as utensils, buckets that one may want to discard.


• Medicinces - mostly antibiotics such as Metrogyl, Novaclox, Cifran etc, pain killers - Brufen etc.


• Non-perishable food items such as rice, dal etc.

Collections centres for the relief material are operating from the following addresses:

Hamsapriya
C/o Dr. T. Srinivasan
"Azhagar"
56, Poes Garden, Opp. Jaya TV
Phone: 24662486

Annanagar Centre
Sonex Towers - 5th floor
2nd Ave, Annanagar."

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Anyway, more updates:
The death toll has crossed 40000. I hate this. With one swift, devastating blow nature has erased these lives, crippled economies, and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Is it a rude reminder from above on the subject of who is the boss around here? Here goes the country-wide toll:
Sri Lanka 18,700
Indonesia 15,000
India 7,000
Thailand 1,500
Somalia 100
Malaysia 50
Maldives 50
Myanmar 30 Source: NDTV.com

Despite the obvious attempt at dramatizing the disaster and the loss of life, NDTV's correspondents did a good job. Barka and her crew, hats-off. I eat my words back.

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