Tsunami news for Hambantota, Sri Lanka

EARTHQUAKE: December 31st declared as National Day of Mourning 29 December 2004
...has arranged with the Air Force to rpvide air transport to all City Coroners to the affected areas such as Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Batticaloa, Trincomalee ... noticias.info (press release),

Tsunami swallows most of southern Lanka town 29 December 2004
Hambantota was the southern gateway to Sri Lanka's famed Yala National Park, its ... very busiest when the deadly tsunami triggered by an earthquake beneath the ... Indian Express,

EARTHQUAKE: President leads relief operations 29 December 2004
...of such particulars. Two hundred unidentified ... bodies found in Hambantota District are due to be buried today. According to ... noticias.info (press release),

In California, a Pained Wait for Word of Relatives 29 December 2004
Having lived through the Northridge earthquake here in 1994, Ms. Tio said she could ... 10 and 12, who were vacationing at a beach resort near Hambantota, Sri Lanka ... New York Times

India rushes aid to Lanka 29 December 2004
...supplies. Several batches have also been air-dropped. Medical teams have been deployed at the district hospital in Hambantota. The ... Times of India,

Combat against Tsunami aftermath persists in Sri Lanka 29 December 2004
...students, civilians, military and police personnel have queued up in the battered areas to donate blood since Sunday,when a powerful earthquake in Indonesia ... Xinhua,

Australia & New Zealand 27 December 2004
The earthquake was centered 1,605 kilometers (1,000 miles) northwest of Indonesia's ... Sri Lanka's southern provinces of Ampara and Hambantota were worst hit, and ... Bloomberg

Whereabouts of 16 tourists unaccounted for 27 December 2004
...not been confirmed as of 9 pm Monday after a massive earthquake off Sumatra ... The hotel in Hambantota, southern Sri Lanka, they had been staying at reportedly ... Daily Yomiuri,

* Tidal waves: 1500 dead, ... toll rising 26 December 2004
...were under seawater, with the town areas in Tangalle and Hambantota under seawater for ... The US Geological Survey website said an earthquake measuring 8.9 on the ... Colombo Page,

Galle, Sri Lanka 27 December 2004
In the nearby town of Hambantota, hundreds of people who arrived for the weekly fish ... team in a stadium next to the bus station when the earthquake-driven wave ... Washington Post,

Sri Lanka toll now put at over 4,800, still climbing: 26 December 2004
The tsunami tidal waves were caused by a massive earthquake measuring 8.9 ... in the southern coastal belt, including areas like Hambantota, Ambalantota, Tangalle ... New Kerala,

Ignore regional interest, help everyone 27 December 2004
It took two hours for the tidal waves to come after the earthquake. ... in Trincomalee, Amparai and Batticaloa, the seaboard areas of Galle, Hambantota and Matara ... OneWorld.net,

Bearing the brunt 26 December 2004
...is the largest since the 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska earthquake," the US ... Doctors in the southern city of Hambantota, whose communication lines are down ... Lanka Business Online,

At least 148 Japanese unaccounted for in tsunami disaster: report 26 December 2004
A massive earthquake off Indonesia caused tsunami waves which lashed coastal regions of ... had been recovered from a destroyed hotel in Hambantota in southern Sri ... Channel News Asia,