Nobody yet knows. The number of bodies recovered is already in the hundreds, but coastal towns of significant size have been washed away. Tens of thousands are unaccounted for, and many of these will be dead.
In the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 over 230,000 people died.
10,000
at least 130,000 people dead
about 150,000 people were dead or still missing
there are 343 confirmed dead.
No one knows what the final total will be.
Only in Srilanka Dead: over 35,000 Displaced: 443,000
Well... It was around 15,000 people dead, and a little over 3,000 people missing.
tsuminis
The number reportedly is currently over a thousand, but there are tens of thousands unaccounted for.
There were at least 230,000 people dead.
So far 9,000 people have been proclaimed dead, and 14,000 are missing. :(
it's about 130.000 peoples dead and over of 37.000 people lost after Indonesian Tsunami in 2004