The fight to deliver aid
Estimated dead : 100,000
Relief flights pouring into Sumatran province of Banda Aceh and clogging airport but survivors still say little is reaching them. Tonnes of aid unopened at the airport because of logistical distribution difficulties.
Indonesian navy is still trying to reach remote towns reported to have been almost completely wiped out. Aircraft are dropping food packages at coastal villages. Polluted water is greatest danger to health.
The United States is sending five ships led by aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, the first of an expected armada of naval aid from around the world.
Sri Lanka
Estimated dead 43,000
Oxfam says drinking water is contaminated and food is scarce. Flooding is hampering the distribution of aid. In Trincomalee the Oxfam HQ is flooded and telephone wires are down. British Red Cross says a logistics team with Land Rover is due to arrive in Colombo today to establish a forward logistics base to handle aid effort. Red Cross expected to handle seven aid flights within next 72 hours.
Thailand
Estimated dead: 8,000
Supplies of bottled water and food arriving in greater quantities. Biggest difficulty is recovering and identifying bodies. Worst-hit is Phang Nga, north of Phuket, where 2,230 foreigners are missing.
Khao Lak beach described as a graveyard where more than 3,000 people may have died. So far, 1,800 bodies have been recovered. Extra troops being sent. Officials are appealing for metal coffins for the bodies of foreign dead. Metropolitan Police forensic experts are among international police teams helping identify the dead.
Andaman and Nicobar islands
Estimated dead: unknown
International Red Cross fears as many as 30,000 people are missing on remotest islands but survivors are emerging from the jungle. They lived on wild potatoes and had to avoid crocodiles swept ashore by the tsunami.
International aid groups denied entry to some more remote islands inhabited by protected primitive tribes who resist contact with the outside world. Officials say it is difficult to approach some because they fire arrows at strangers. Access also hampered because island jetties have been smashed.
India
Estimated death toll: 14,000
Distribution of aid hampered by new warnings of tsunamis which have proved false but caused panic among thousands in Tamil Nadu province.
Aid reaching some coastal towns but still not getting through to remoter regions. Aid agencies working to distribute food and water and provide sanitation.
