Hope Fades for Missing As Death Toll Goes Higher ; 'You Wonder Where Are the People?'Annan Says

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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The official death toll from the Asian tsunami climbed dramatically to 147,000 Friday and authorities held out little hope for tens of thousands still missing. Flying over miles of ravaged shoreline, a shaken U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan asked: "You wonder where are the people? What has happened to them?"

Indonesia said searchers found 7,118 more bodies in the shattered coastal town of Meulaboh, where families picked through piles of rubble. Indian officials raised that country's toll by 310, most of them killed in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, where 5,600 were missing and presumed dead.

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Hope Fades for Missing As Death Toll Goes Higher ; 'You Wonder Where Are the People?'Annan Says

Sweden, Britain and France warned they feared that nearly 1,100 of their citizens missing in the disaster were dead.

Nearly two weeks after huge waves struck 11 countries in Asia and Africa, the lists of missing were still rising. Sri Lanka, with more than 30,000 known dead, added 528 names to its ranks of missing, for a total of 4,984. Ind...

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