10,000 tourists still missing

Ten days after the Indian Ocean tsunami, Western governments are still struggling to produce precise figures for their missing citizens, BBC News reported today. The death toll among foreigners currently stands at 396, the BBC said, with about 10,000 tourists missing or feared dead. Germans account for the highest number of victims among tourists so far, with 60 confirmed deaths. In Thailand, half of the more than 5,200 people known to have died in the country were foreigners. The tsunami is believed to have killed tourists from at least 45 countries. The