Tsunami death toll update

CNN.com – Tsunami death toll tops 116,000 – Dec 30, 2004

Ugh. It’s hard to even imagine the magnitude of this disaster. Entire populations literally wiped out in a single day, and survivors without even pieces to pick up in the aftermath.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CNN) — The death toll from Sunday’s tsunamis has jumped sharply to over 116,000 after Indonesia reported nearly 80,000 people were killed in that country alone.

U.N. relief workers arrived in Indonesia’s Aceh province to find devastation in the region closest to the epicenter of the earthquake that spawned the killer tsunamis.

Emergency workers reported that in some parts of Aceh, as many as one in every four citizens was dead.