I've just finished watching the news (on SBS, from a foreign country, in a foreign language). They would show a map, a very large number, and then some video of water rushing up a beach and into town, usually filmed from above. Then the next country. And the next. And the next.

18,000 people [via Pah].

More than 6,289 people were killed in southern India, including about 3,000 in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; at least 5,880 people, including 70 foreigners, died and many more are reported missing in Sri Lanka; at least 4,491 people were killed in Indonesia; more than 839 were killed and another 7,200 injured in southern Thailand; and 44 people were killed in Malaysia.

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