Indonesia's health ministry said yesterday that a total of 228,164 people are dead or missing after the December 26th earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Sumatra.
The ministry's crisis centre said 95,992 bodies have been recovered and buried and another 132,172 people were missing.
The health ministry last week raised its death toll from the disaster to 173,981 by adding some 70,000 missing and presumed dead to its figure for confirmed deaths.