More than 3,000 foreigners dead in Asian tsunamis

More than 3,000 foreigners dead in Asian tsunamis

Three and a half weeks after the Indian Ocean tsunamis, more than 3,000 foreigners were on Tuesday listed as either dead or missing.

The confirmed death toll of 423 was expected to go up as new identifications were completed and the thousands of still missing persons were declared dead.

The following is a country-by-country breakdown of confirmed casualties -- not including nationals from the affected region. Close to 175,000 people from an 11-country swath from Indonesia to Somalia died following the catastrophe.

The overall figure of missing people is approximate, with some authorities listing all those who had failed to make contact, and others listing only those specifically reported as having disappeared.

For countries which provide separate lists of the missing and unaccounted for, only the number of missing is used.

Several countries have not released the number of people missing across the region, but their numbers are believed to reach into the hundreds. -- AFP