At least 30,229 people have been killed and 15,683 others injured in the
huge tsunami, according toa report issued Tuesday by the Center for National
Operations Sri Lanka.
The massive tidal waves, triggered by a powerful earthquakes measuring 8.7 on
the Richter scale off Indonesia on Dec. 26, 2004,crashed into the coastal
villages over a wide area of Sri Lanka, displacing 835,028 others, affecting
212,319 families and leaving 3,858 still missing, it said.
The huge disaster also completely damaged 88,022 houses while 25,731
partially battered. The government has already set up 751 camps in the
tsunami-hit areas.
The quake was the strongest over the past four decades, and thefourth-largest
in a century.
