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The Thai government said Friday that it had discovered 3,500 additional corpses on the northern coast of Phuket. News agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that the majority of the new corpses have not been officially tabulated but 713 foreigners were believed to among the dead.
This brings the fatality list created by the tsunami that rolled across the Indian Ocean Sunday to strike 11 South Asian and African countries to 120,899. In terms of national statistics, 79,940 of the dead were found in Indonesia, 24,743 in Sri Lanka, 11,330 in India and 4,510 in Thailand.
As of Friday, the number of Korean victims is calculated at eight dead, eight missing, 17 injured and 585 unknown. Among those whose whereabouts remain unidentified, 195 people are in their 20s and 154 are in their 30s.
The Korean government sent to Sri Lanka eight non-governmental organization and quarantine workers, seven tons of medical supplies and a C-130 military transport aircraft.
It will also dispatch two forensic scientists from the National Institute of Scientific Investigation to Phuket, Thailand, to identify the corpses.
(Shin Yong-kwan, qq@chosun.com )
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