MOGADISHU, Jan 5 (AFP) - The toll of people killed in Somalia when a deadly tsunami tidal wave struck the country's Indian Ocean coast ten days ago has climbed to nearly 300 people, an official said on Wednesday, updating the toll from 176.
"Some 298 people have died. This includes those who are not yet accounted for," Mohammed Abdi Gagab, the vice president of the Somali northeastern state of Puntland, told a press conference in region's capital Garowe.
Over the weekend, Somalia authorities gave the toll as 176, basing it on the number of bodies recovered so far.
01/05/2005 16:00 GMT - AFP