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Over 9,000 foreigners missing in tsunami
4/1/2005 10:55

More than 9,000 foreigners are missing or unaccounted for in the tsunami triggered by a strong earthquake off an Indonesia island.

The earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.7 in the Richter scale according to China's State Seismological Bureau, occurred at 06:58 a.m. (0058 GMT) on Dec. 26 off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The death toll has been more than 140,000.

Following is a list of foreigners killed or reported missing so far in the disaster:

Argentina:

2 reported missing in Thailand.

Australia:

12 dead, 79 missing and about 1,200 unaccounted for.

Austria:

7 confirmed dead, at least 468 missing and 211 unaccounted for.

Belgium:

6 dead and 99 missing. About 375 nationals have not been unaccounted for.

Brazil:

2 killed.

Britain:

40 were reported killed and 159 people unaccounted for

Canada:

5 dead, 150 known missing.

Chile:

7 missing.

China:

9 confirmed dead in Thailand. (Two from Jiangsu Province, One from the Inner Mongolia, four from Hong Kong, two from Taiwan)

Colombia:

1 baby girl killed in Malaysia.

Croatia:

1 dead, 1 missing.

The Czech Republic:

1 dead, about 25 reported missing.

Denmark:

At least 7 dead, 69 missing.

Finland:

5 confirmed dead, 183 missing.

France:

22 killed, 99 missing, 560 unaccounted for.

Germany:

60 dead, about 1,000 missing.

Greece:

9 missing.

Hungary:

20 missing.

Iceland:

11 missing.

Ireland:

20 missing.

Israel:

4 dead, about 7 missing.

Italy:

At least 18 dead, about 436 missing.

Japan:

21 reported killed.

Luxembourg:

2 missing.

Malta:

1 missing.

Mexico:

15 reported missing.

The Netherlands:

6 confirmed dead, 30 missing, and 200 unaccounted for.

New Zealand:

1 reported killed, 302 missing.

Norway:

16 dead, 109 unaccounted for.

Poland:

4 dead, 43 missing.

Portugal:

8 missing.

Romania:

2 missing.

Russia:

1 killed, about 50 unaccounted for.

Singapore:

9 dead, 12 missing, 157 unaccounted for.

South Africa:

7 killed, 9 missing.

South Korea:

11 dead, 9 missing.

Spain:

11 missing.

Sweden:

52 confirmed dead, 827 missing and 1,495 unaccounted for.

Switzerland:

16 killed, 95 missing and 500 unaccounted for.

Turkey:

53 missing.

The United States:

At least 15 dead.



 Xinhua