December 30, 2004
Desperate search by mobile phones for missing Irish tourists
A desperate search using mobile phone tracking was mounted last night to trace Irish people missing in the worst disaster of modern times in which the death toll could now surpass 100,000, reports the Belfast Telegraph.
"Phone companies O2 and Vodafone were working with the Republic's Department of Foreign Affairs as the search intensified and fears mounted for two missing Irish women.
Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said his department was trying to trace the last calls made by up to 20 Irish people still unaccounted for in the disaster zone.
"We are using every device possible to try and trace people. Our people on the ground - particularly in Sri Lanka and Phuket, Thailand - are checking out as much as they can all of the hospitals and other areas where perhaps people might be," he said last night."
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