30th December 2004, 11:26 AM
116,000 dead as of today. I remember on day one, when it was about 11,000. Then it was 22,000 and we all gasped---then it was 50,000, and we fainted... then it was 80,000 yesterday. What'll it be tomorrow, I fear.
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