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Tidal waves kill 56 in Burma
28 Dec 2004 (The Australian) - AT LEAST 56 people have been killed in Burma from tidal waves unleashed by a huge earthquake and the toll is expected to rise, an international aid agency said today.
"The government's relief and resettlement ministry is now confirming 36 dead in Ayeyarwaddy," a division west of the capital Yangon, an official from the agency told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"And a Thanintharyi division minister of home affairs official has also confirmed ... that at least 20 people in that division have died," he said of Burma's southernmost region which borders Thailand.
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