Nordic countries dispatched search teams and made public appeals for help to find some 2,000 Swedes, Danes, Finns and Norwegians missing in the aftermath of earthquake-driven tsunamis in south Asia. Thai officials said 95 people from the Nordics had been killed. In Norway, Foreign Minister Jan Petersen said 446 Norwegians were missing in the region and it was unclear whether 930 more had been in the hardest hit areas. «This could mean that this is one of the worst catastrophes to hit Norwegians abroad in modern times,» Petersen said. Denmark and Finland each reported 200 citizens missing, while Swedish government officials warned that it was uncertain whether more than 1,000 missing Swedes could be found alive. --More 2308 Local Time 2008 GMT
