> The death toll continues to climb.
> Images of the disaster (via Gareth).
> At Malacca:
"There was a tremendous sound. We shouted to all our neighbours to run. We ran 200 metres up the hill. Behind us, trees and cylinders floated past. The village disappeared. There was nothing left," Mr James said. He added: "When I went back, I saw many hands sticking out of the sand."
> The story of a British businessman who survived with his four children, but whose wife - their mother - did not:
Fighting his own grief, Mr Willgrass then had to tell his children that their mother was dead. After telling the two eldest, he took the younger ones aside. "I just told them that mummy had gone to heaven, but I don't know whether that is the right thing to say."(See also here.)