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Tsunami
death toll rises to 76,700 |
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DEC 29:
Indonesia's military teams reached the devastated west coast of
Sumatra island, finding thousands of bodies and hiking total death
toll to more than 76,700.. |
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Aussies claim Test series against Pak |
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DEC 29:
Australia wrapped
up another 4-day Test tour de force over Pakistan today, cruising to a
nine-wicket victory in the second Test.. |
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India rejects foreign aid for relief work |
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DEC 29: India has turned down foreign aid as it has "adequate
resources" to provide relief to victims of a deadly tsunami that
killed thousands of Asians.. |
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Baghdad bomb kills 28 in "trap" for police |
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DEC 29: At least 28 people have been killed in Baghdad
overnight after insurgents blew up a house that police were raiding,
flattening neighbouring homes... |
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Where are all the dead animals? |
 DEC 29:
YALA NATIONAL PARK, Sri Lanka - Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka expressed surprise
Wednesday that they found no evidence of animal
deaths from the tsunamis - indicating that animals may have
sensed the wave coming and fled to higher ground.
An Associated Press
photographer who flew over Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in an
air force helicopter saw abundant wildlife, including elephants,
buffalo, deer, and not a single animal corpse.
Giant
waves washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inland at Yala National
Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife
reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several
leopards.
"The
strange thing is we haven't recorded any dead animals," H.D.
Ratnayake, deputy director of the national Wildlife Department,
told Reuters on Wednesday.
"No elephants are dead, not even
a dead hare or rabbit," he added. "I think animals can sense
disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are
happening."
At
least 40 tourists, including nine Japanese, were drowned.
Floodwaters from Sunday's tsunami
swept into the park, uprooting trees and toppling cars onto
their roofs - one red car even ended up on top of a huge tree -
but the animals apparently were not harmed and may have sought
out high ground, said Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, whose Jetwing
Eco Holidays ran a hotel in the park.
``This is very interesting. I am
finding bodies of humans, but I have yet to see a dead animal,''
said Wijeyeratne, whose hotel in the park was destroyed.
``Maybe what we think is true, that animals have a sixth
sense,'' Wijeyeratne said.
Yala, Sri Lanka's largest wildlife reserve, is home to 200
Asian Elephants, crocodile, wild boar, water buffalo and gray langur monkeys. The park also has Asia's highest concentration
of leopards. The Yala reserve covers 391 square miles, but
only 56 square miles are open to tourists.
The
human death toll in Sri Lanka surpassed 21,000. Forty
foreigners were among 200 people in Yala who were killed. (Agencies) |
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