SA tsunami toll rises
2005-01-13 16:36
Pretoria - One more South African has been confirmed dead after the December 26 tsunami in Thailand, bring the total of dead South Africans to 11, the foreign affairs department said in Pretoria on Thursday.
The number of people missing, feared dead, dropped to four as a result, a spokesperson at the department's operations centre said.
A total of 41 South Africans remained unaccounted for by Thursday afternoon.
The figure dropped from more than 300 at the weekend as people who had been in the area at the time of the disaster told the department they were unharmed.
The spokesperson said at this point identification of bodies was only possible by DNA tests, which were being carried out at Krabi in Thailand.
- SAPA