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Flash news: AVIONEWS on the Asian seaquake and air transport effects

Rome, Italy - The death and missing toll is expected to increase

This morning a 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a powerful seaquake hit Asia demolishing cities and villages in Thailandia Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malesia, Maldive and India. The provisional toll registers about 11,000 casualties and hundreds of thousands of injured, missing and roofless. Italian tourists would be 5000: at moment there is no news about victims among tourists registered by tour operators;...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 110642
Rome, Italy, 12/26/2004 21:54
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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