Thailand's death toll of Sunday's tsunami has risen to 1,538 with more and more corpses discovered by rescue teams, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday morning.
The ministry's special unit said 1,538 deaths have been confirmed, with some 9,000 people injured in the disaster.
The latest update did not indicate the number of missing people, which stood around 1,200 on Tuesday night.
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra earlier told reporters that he expected the death toll to reach over 2,000.
Many of the country's worst hit places are hotspot for foreign vacationers, such as Phuket Island, Phi Phi Island and Lak Island.
Therefore, a large number of the dead and missing are expected to be foreign tourists, though there is still no official data as the percentage.