Asian Tsunami: Trace the missing

BBC News Online ^ | 29 December 2004

[bd476]

BBC Online: Last Updated: Wednesday, 29 December, 2004, 09:25 GMT

Asia quake: Trace the missing

Thousands of people are still missing and millions are homeless following the Asia earthquake that has seen the death toll reach tens of thousands.

Huge waves triggered by the worst earthquake in 40 years have devastated large parts of South and South East Asia.

The BBC News website has received many messages from people eager to find out about the whereabouts of families and friends who live in or are visiting the region.

Can you help? Or, have you lost contact with someone in the region?

Use the form on the right to send your stories and please let us know if you do find anyone.

You can read our message board for missing persons by clicking on the links below.

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Click here for those missing in Thailand

Click here for those missing in Sri Lanka

Click here for those missing in India

Click here for those missing in Indonesia

Click here for those missing in the Maldives

BBC Online form to trace the missing

[texasflower]

Thanks for that video link. For some reason my audio wouldn't play but he looks like he's pretty talented. I sure hope all of the people still missing are just bunched up somewhere waiting to get word out that they are okay.

I can't begin to image what the family members of all of these missing people are going through.

All of those people just being pushed into mass graves, being burned in big piles or just washed out to sea......

Just awful.

[bd476]

Prayers up for all. God Bless them all.

[bd476]

Ping.

[Stoat]

Thank you bd476 for creating this thread.

Website to track tsunami dead (Send weblink to your friends so they can look for loved ones)

(This is a new site which will incorporate all data in one centralized location, according to the article)

[bd476]

The Phuket Disaster Forum has put up a new updated, extensive though still unofficial list of dead, injured and missing persons in Southern Thailand.

Patients are listed in all cases, if possible, by name; age; sex; country of origin;, if applicable, current location; province visited or found in; and status (death, admittance, discharge and missing.)

Consolidated Name List of Dead, Injured and Missing Persons due to Tsunami in 6 Southern Provinces, Thailand (unofficial) Update 31 Dec 2004

[bd476]

Friends and Relatives Searches for Information About Missing Persons After Tsunami on Internet

The website http://www.p-h-u-k-e-t.com exceeds 650,000 visits in 48 hours

(PRWEB) December 31, 2004 -- Thailand/Sweden/Norway, December 30th, 2004: "The website www.p-h-u-k-e-t.com has received more than 650,000 visits over the past 48 hours from friends and relatives in search of missing persons after the tragedy that hit Asia on December 26.

A group of volunteers in Phuket, Thailand, came together and established the website shortly after the tragedy was a fact. The service became extremely popular within hours. With help from people in Sweden and Norway additional IT resources was made available and the website currently handles an average of 3-4000 simultaneous visitors constantly.

Several visitors have reported that they have found information about their missing persons or have been able to contact people that have confirmed the whereabouts of the persons they have been looking for.

With the help of national and international media we hope to be of service as long as needed. This initiative is strictly non-profit and is run on a voluntary basis without any form of advertising or other compensation."

Friends and Relatives Searches for Information About Missing Persons After Tsunami on Internet

[bd476]

Updated Bangkok Bumrungrad Hospital List - Bangkok Thailand

This list appears to be a more extensive Bumrungrad Hospital list than the one provided on a previously posted "consolidated list."

It's going to be slow going for survivors searching for loved ones.

News Alert: Tsunami Patient Information

Date : 1 Jan 2005

In an effort to help reunite friends and families affected by the tsunami in southern Thailand, Bumrungrad Hospital is providing a list of patients that are being or have been treated at our facility.

This list will be updated periodically. For reasons of patient confidentiality, we cannot provide any more information on this list other than patient name, nationality and age.

Tsunami Patient Information as of 0800 hour Bangkok Time
Name	Age	Nationality	Status
Andrew Russcll Tate	49	American	Outpatient
Christopher Robert Burke	27	American	Outpatient
Christopher Robert Burke	27	American	Outpatient
Clementine Prudence Clough	13	American	Outpatient
Clementine Prudence Clough	13	American	Outpatient
Jeffrey Mativey Woods	29	American	Admitted
Kristin Elizabeth Foord	31	American	Outpatient
Laura Wales	29	American	Admitted
Paul Calhoun Landgraver	33	American	Outpatient
Paul Kan	35	American	Admitted
Zoe Shiu	6	American	Discharged
Armin Heydari	13	Australian	Outpatient
Biarnca Castagna	23	Australian	Outpatient
Douglas Arnold Smith	61	Australian	Outpatient
Floyd Tony Gee	27	Australian	Discharged
Gemma Louise Ball	28	Australian	Outpatient
GRAHAM ROBERT PATTISON...	56	Australian	Admitted
Jessica Jane Rothnie	19	Australian	Admitted
Julie Keast	52	Australian	Outpatient
Julie Maree Higgins	37	Australian	Admitted
Justin Kendall Bell	29	Australian	Admitted
Karen Sonia Goh	53	Australian	Admitted
Margaret Joan Smith	47	Australian	Outpatient
Natalie Jane Verryckt	27	Australian	Discharged
Roswitha Schuller	20	Australian	Outpatient
ustin Fitzherbert Smith	21	Australian	Admitted
Koen De Wit	34	Belgian	Admitted
Jovana Vidovic	10	Bosnian	Outpatient
Milan Vidovic	38	Bosnian	Outpatient
Emma-Clare Yeates	14	British	Outpatient
Maureen Barbara Lester	62	British	Admitted
Michael Joseph Lyons	37	British	Admitted
Nicholas David John Carver	48	British	Admitted
Paul Murray	32	British	Outpatient
Abigail Emma Owen Smith	25	British	Outpatient
Adam James Wright	17	British	Outpatient
Alexander James Gordon	18	British	Outpatient
Alexander James Gordon	18	British	Outpatient
Andrew David Tompsett	45	British	Outpatient
Charles Sebastian Gordon	14	British	Admitted
Charlie Timothy Anderson	28	British	Outpatient
Charlotte Nina Man	25	British	Outpatient
Claire Lester	31	British	Admitted
Claudia Rose Rea	7	British	Discharged
Claudia Rose Rea	7	British	Outpatient
Clementine Prudence Clough	14	British	Outpatient
Dianne Karen Biggs	43	British	Outpatient
Dianne Karen Biggs	43	British	Outpatient
Emma Davies	33	British	Admitted
Emma-Clare Yeates	14	British	Outpatient
Gerard Finlay	33	British	Admitted
Guy Stuart Mille	28	British	Admitted
Jacqueline Denise Smith	49	British	Outpatient
James Lester	28	British	Admitted
Janet Gaynor	47	British	Admitted
Jason Charles Beech	31	British	Outpatient
Jenna Bryant	20	British	Outpatient
Jenna Bryant	20	British	Outpatient
John David Chadwick	40	British	Outpatient
John Rushton	60	British	Discharged
Kathryn Gunter	23	British	Admitted
Lucy Jane Haylock	26	British	Admitted
Marilyn Rushton	52	British	Discharged
Mark Brandon	36	British	Outpatient
Nathalie Susanna Clough	16	British	Discharged
Neill Thomas Dodson	35	British	Outpatient
Nicholas David John Carver	48	British	Outpatient
Nicola Jane Rogers	35	British	Admitted
Paul Edward Rogers	46	British	Admitted
Paul George Ingram	26	British	Outpatient
Paul Murray	32	British	Outpatient
Paul Murray	32	British	Outpatient
Ralph Gosling	32	British	Outpatient
Ryan Charles Peter Kelly	30	British	Admitted
Sally Ann Gordon	46	British	Admitted
Sally Huyton	28	British	Admitted
Sally Shearing	29	British	Discharged
Sandip Chowdhury	30	British	Outpatient
Sarah Cumming	22	British	Outpatient
Sharon Lynette Howard	37	British	Admitted
Simon Charles Jenkins	16	British	Outpatient
Simon Charles Jenkins	16	British	Outpatient
Simon James Richards	37	British	Discharged
Simon Jonathon Thorsby	26	British	Admitted
Stephen Peter Mcqueenie	36	British	Admitted
Stevie Louise Worsley	20	British	Outpatient
Susan Theresa Barrett	44	British	Outpatient
Theodore Barratt Mullan	12	British	Outpatient
Valerie Potts	34	British	Admitted
Daniel Thompson	11	Canadian	Outpatient
Christopher Michael Pothaar	25	Canadian	Admitted
Don Elwyn Morrison	61	Canadian	Admitted
Fern Dale Jeffries	58	Canadian	Admitted
Olivier Charron Duhamel	10	Canadian	Outpatient
Tevia Raphael Morrison Jeffries	24	Canadian	Admitted
Thanh Tram Cao	28	Canadian	Discharged
Wang Feng Rong	32	Chinese	Admitted
Ladislav Chrast	44	Czech	Outpatient
Renata Chrastova	36	Czech	Admitted
Mette Birger Rulis	38	Danish	Discharged
Thomas Rulis	43	Danish	Outpatient
Jacob Van Loenen	55	Dutch	Outpatient
KARIN MARIETTE BERKHOUT	41	Dutch	Admitted
Petro Berkhout	44	Dutch	Admitted
Philip Anthonie Bloem	32	Dutch	Admitted
Ruud Willem Bosch	72	Dutch	Admitted
Wilhelmina Gerretsen	51	Dutch	Admitted
Alexandra Debray	22	French	Discharged
Aurelie Kirsi Letocart	21	French	Admitted
Cecile Letocart	27	French	Admitted
David Debray	30	French	Outpatient
Eric Bengloan	33	French	Admitted
Isabelle Christine Bergeron	37	French	Discharged
Josette Henriette Debray	57	French	Admitted
Luc Pierre Garcia	13	French	Discharged
Marjorie Triboulet	25	French	Outpatient
Nicolas Jacky Debray	27	French	Admitted
Simon Derek Dowell	39	French	Discharged
Tanguy Garin	13	French	Discharged
Yoan Sustronck	23	French	Discharged
Detlev Karl Freiherr Von Wangenheim	59	German	Admitted
Angelika Gleichmann	52	German	Admitted
Birgit Inge Reinhard	38	German	Discharged
Bresink Mario	36	German	Outpatient
Daniel Foehrig	19	German	Admitted
Elke Reik	39	German	Admitted
Fabian Kipping	16	German	Outpatient
Helmu Brand	64	German	Outpatient
Ingeburg Westphal	65	German	Admitted
Jurgen Bernd Albert	34	German	Outpatient
Landes Angelika	49	German	Discharged
Lea Pasterkamp	10	German	Outpatient
Marga Ursula Bresink-Foehrig	56	German	Admitted
Mariam Al-Safi	27	German	Discharged
Mark Karl-Heinz Dr. Schnabel	34	German	Admitted
Monika Porntippa Erwin	21	German	Outpatient
Peter Gleichmann	51	German	Admitted
Petra Gertrud Maria Kipping	44	German	Discharged
Reugiger Horsthemke	37	German	Admitted
Sandra Henkel	30	German	Outpatient
Stefan Herberger	46	German	Outpatient
Stefan Laub	50	German	Discharged
Ursula Zipse	40	German	Discharged
Winston Wun Sing Chow	47	Hong Kong	Outpatient
Dawn Margaret Gosling	31	Irish	Outpatient
Abed El Kader Sawalhi	20	Israeli	Outpatient
Anat Zaebenberg	19	Israeli	Discharged
Michal Margulis	21	Israeli	Discharged
Ran Bivas	28	Israeli	Outpatient
Sara Cristini Bosisio	26	Italian	Discharged
Simioni Massimo	29	Italian	Discharged
Ai Murakawa	26	Japanese	Discharged
Chinatsu Kobayashi	3	Japanese	Outpatient
Kengo Nakamura	21	Japanese	Discharged
Eun Hee Lee	38	Korean	Discharged
Park Hyo Yul	44	Korean	Admitted
Park Hyuk Kyun	11	Korean	Discharged
Sivabalan Rajaratnam	27	Malaysian	Outpatient
Ann Odermatt	28	Maltan	Admitted
Geir Hakon Strand	42	Norwegian	Outpatient
Giovanni Enrique Cabrera Dominguez	41	Peruvian	Admitted
Marta Rabska	26	Polish	Discharged
Ana Catarina Pires Santos E Silva	31	Portugese	Discharged
Gil Sen Coutinho	11	Portugese	Admitted
Paulo J. L. Coutinho	44	Portugese	Admitted
Zora Sen Coutinho	13	Portugese	Admitted
Adel Hasan Jalal	47	Saudi Arabian	Admitted
Wee En Tan	3	Singaporean	Discharged
Felicia Josefin Blick	13	Swedish	Outpatient
Ingemar Hedlund	44	Swedish	Admitted
Martin Henrik Ljungman	11	Swedish	Outpatient
Stefan Winge	32	Swedish	Outpatient
Amanda Elisabet Blick	16	Swedish	Outpatient
Anders Sahlen	18	Swedish	Discharged
Ann Eleanor Walker	7	Swedish	Outpatient
Ann Jeanette Marie Fornborn	42	Swedish	Outpatient
Anna Cecilia Paulina Fagerstrom	9	Swedish	Outpatient
Anna Hellman	10	Swedish	Discharged
Axel Nils Savstam	15	Swedish	Admitted
Bernt Gunnar Gunnarsson	72	Swedish	Discharged
David Sven Einar Walker	14	Swedish	Discharged
Ella Karina Priebe	3	Swedish	Outpatient
Emma Margareta Jonsson	22	Swedish	Discharged
Eva Susanne Blick	44	Swedish	Outpatient
Han Peter Magnus Haggstrom	49	Swedish	Outpatient
Jeanette Helen Flood	33	Swedish	Admitted
Jenny Inga-Lill Behlin Svedel	24	Swedish	Outpatient
Johan Carl Priebe	15	Swedish	Outpatient
Karin Maria Sundelius	25	Swedish	Outpatient
Lars Henrik Andersson	23	Swedish	Outpatient
Malin Ines Charlotta Savstam	44	Swedish	Admitted
Martin Andreasson	29	Swedish	Admitted
Martin Henrik Ljungman	11	Swedish	Outpatient
Mattias Hedlund	14	Swedish	Outpatient
Moa Hedlund	11	Swedish	Outpatient
Patricia Haggblom	33	Swedish	Admitted
Rolf Nilsson Blick	64	Swedish	Discharged
Sahlen Erik Axel Sahlen	30	Swedish	Admitted
Bolt Manfred	65	Swiss	Admitted
Erwin Heller	68	Swiss	Admitted
Jared Boone	26	Swiss	Discharged
Lisa Eigenmann	43	Swiss	Discharged
Markus Odermatt	30	Swiss	Admitted
Minori Takei	26	Swiss	Discharged
Monika Feusi-Koch	44	Swiss	Discharged
Odermatt Franziska	34	Swiss	Outpatient
Remo Maroggi	47	Swiss	Discharged
Rolf Moesch	56	Swiss	Discharged
Suter Harcel	37	Swiss	Outpatient
Theresia Scott	54	Swiss	Admitted
Urs Keller	48	Swiss	Discharged
Narumon Yantawatana	21	Thai	Outpatient
Ampol Siripolvutthikul	23	Thai	Discharged
Apirut Vanchaam	37	Thai	Outpatient
Busara Siripolvutthikul	44	Thai	Discharged
Chamaree Chuapetcharsopon (Dr.)	49	Thai	Outpatient
Jutha Phittayanaryumarn	33	Thai	Admitted
Kajhon Siripolvutthikul	22	Thai	Discharged
Nalin Chuapetcharasopon	14	Thai	Outpatient
Natarika Siripolvuthikul	18	Thai	Discharged
Nutkanya Siriponvuttikul	18	Thai	Outpatient
Pylin Chuapetcharasopon	21	Thai	Outpatient
Worakij Siripolvuthikul	18	Thai	Discharged

Please note that this list includes names of patients treated at Bumrungrad Hospital only. Regrettably, we do not have information regarding patients treated at other hospitals.

For more information on patients admitted here at Bumrungrad Hospital, please contact us at Tel: +662 667 1000.

For more information on patients treated and discharged, please contact the relevant embassy or consular office in Bangkok for more information.

Patients who have returned to their home countries and who need medical records or information, please contact Bumrungrad Hospital at our email address: info@bumrungrad.com. Please scan your passport/ identity card or fax a copy to +662 667 1214 as proof of identity for us to release your medical records.

[killjoy]

Just had a short phone call with my friend working in the relief efforts. The strain/stress is really getting to everyone. There is no real effective leadership and a few people are trying to assert themselves as being in charge. Unfortunately, as it usually happens, these people are not qualified to lead things. A lot of local volunteers are starting to abandon efforts because of this. My friend is also getting quite angry at this foolishness. There is talk by a number of volunteers about abandoning the main staging areas and going off to work in some of the local villages. Not good.

[bd476]

Killjoy, thank you for the update on your friend.

"There is no real effective leadership and a few people are trying to assert themselves as being in charge. Unfortunately, as it usually happens, these people are not qualified to lead things. A lot of local volunteers are starting to abandon efforts because of this."

Just wait until the politicians arrive. It might get worse.

"...There is talk by a number of volunteers about abandoning the main staging areas and going off to work in some of the local villages. Not good."

It sure isn't good because all the volunteers should stick together for safety's sake. Separating off into smaller groups leaves them all vulnerable to people who may not need their help as much as they may need to make a political statement with hostages or worse.

Prayers up for your friend and all the volunteers who are trying to help. God protect them and keep them in comfort and good health.

[gortklattu]

It's like Mel Tillis made up that list....there's lots of repeats...

[bd476]

Yes, I noticed that.

It's interesting that some lists are now claiming to have the official statistics. It will take a long time to sort it all out.

Check out the update on Killjoy's friend who is a volunteer worker in the recovery/relief effort. The circumstances are horrible and getting worse.

[USNBandit]

Ping.

Check out the list of hospitalized and see if that checks out with predominantly male. Doesn't look it to me.

[killjoy]

Quick update. My friend has grown even more disallusioned with the 'organized' relief efforts in Phang Nga. She has decided to see what else she can do to help. She spent the last day and a half with a small girl taking her around trying to find her parents. No luck.

[SuziQ]

I heard the most disgusting thing on the news just a little while ago. Some one got the names of folks for whom people were searching, and decided to play a malicious prank. This person has sent notices of death to people looking for loved ones and claiming to be a Govt. Minister, in Thailand, I think, I can't remember which country. I was just appalled! I told Sir SuziQ that any family who got one of those, especially if it isn't true, should have the right to have five minutes in a room alone with this miscreant to have the chance to beat the snot out of him. Then the next family gets their turn!

I think that would be justice, don't you?

[killjoy]

Well, the girl found her parents... maybe. There is a bad smell coming from the building close to where they were. They are assuming they are dead inside it. One of the biggest problems now is a lack of construction equipment. They don't have cranes to move debris out of the way. They also dont have anything that can chop up masonry into smaller pieces. For now, they just have to leave things the way they are, bodies or not.

In some areas they are starting to use elephants for heavy lifting. She has not seen it personally but it has made the news. I assume yahoo probably has some pictures of it.

The Thai Prime Minister came down to visit yesterday and did a good job of pissing everyone off. Radio use by the relief crews was forbidden so everything had to stop while he was there.

Because of another thread on FR, I asked her about UN efforts. So far, she has not seen anything with a UN logo on it. Since they are really good at branding anything they are even remotely involved with, it is a good sign they are not there.

The various groups I mentioned before are all still there as well as quite a few foreign 'tourists' who have joined in the efforts. The 'tourists' helping out are from all over but she specifically mentioned some Americans that are there helping. :)

There are rumors going around of some US ships off the coast helping out with things now. She hasn't been paying much attention to the local news so doesn't know more about it.

[monkeywrench]

Lots of great links! I'll be checking out the Hospital, too. I'd rather send another donation directly to a hospital org. Thanks!

[killjoy]

Lots of great links! I'll be checking out the Hospital, too. I'd rather send another donation directly to a hospital org. Thanks!

Next time I talk to her I will try to get more information on the various local groups involved with the efforts.

I just checked and the Thai Red Cross has a link up for online donations at:

http://www.redcross.or.th/english/home/index.php4

If you, or anyone else, would like to donate directly, I can also arrange it. If your donation is sent to me, I can have her go ahead and give an equivalent amount to one of the local temples helping with relief efforts. (I will pay her back when I see her in February.) This way all of the donation would go to helping people instead of towards administrative costs. She has one of my digital cameras with her and I am sure she would be more than happy to send you a picture of the temple where the donation was given. If interested, contact me through mail.

[nw_arizona_granny]

bump

[killjoy]

Latest news...

Things continue to stabilize. A lot of the volunteers who were helping out have left because they need to go back to work. This is creating more work for everyone but is also a benefit since only the more hardcore people are left. A lot of the petty bickering has stopped since those asserting themselves have gone back to their day jobs.

There are still a lot of volunteers as well as foreigners helping out. Things are not as hectic now and they are starting to get more into logistics of how they are going to proceed with things.

There have been a lot of posts about animals not being killed. My friend said there have been a number of dead pigs, snakes and other animals. There have also been a lot of sharks, fish, and dolphins that washed up on shore. A group of people a few days ago were trying to rescue two dolphins that got washed up into a 'pond'.

A lack of manpower is a big problem. A number of the large resorts were barely damaged but the staff who worked there were killed. They don't have the people they need to clean up and re-open.

Finding bodies now is becoming a bigger problem. The stench is gone (they are past that point of decomposition?) so it is making locating them very difficult.

My friend will be back in Bangkok on thursday to take a break. Once she has Internet access again, I will link to some of the pictures she has taken.

[unsycophant]

Thank you for taking time to pass on the information you are getting.