Indonesian workers cleaning up debris of the Dec. 26 tsunami found 1,108 more bodies, raising the confirmed death toll from the disaster to 112,279, the government said Friday. The number of missing remains 127,749, said the government's National Disaster Relief Coordinating Board in a statement. Most of the missing are feared dead but can't be legally declared such for a year. It said authorities found 1,108 more bodies in Aceh province on Thursday and buried them, putting the number of confirmed dead in the area at 112,151. With an additional 128 people dead in a neighboring province, the total reached 112,279. Indonesian Welfare Minister Alwi Shihab has predicted the body count would continue to rise for weeks, with retrieval teams finding an average of 500 bodies a day in cleanup operations.
