The death toll from Sunday's tsunamis climbed to 21,000 as fears of disease from decaying bodies and contaminated water grew in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
The giant waves, triggered by the most powerful earthquake on Earth since March 1964 when a 9.2 quake struck near Alaska's Prince William Sound, also left thousands injured, thousands missing and hundreds of thousands homeless.
More than 10,000 people have been reported dead in Sri Lanka. Most of them, authorities said, were in the eastern district of Batticaloa. Thousands were missing, an estimated 1 million were displaced and an estimated 250,000 were homeless.
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