BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhuanet)-- Tens of thousands more bodies have been found in the sea and wreckage of coastal towns around the Indian Ocean, pushing the death toll from Sunday's tsunami close to 60-thousand.

Of the overall death toll so far, Indonesia has suffered the greatest number of victims. It's Health Ministry reports more than 27-thousand dead while Sri Lanka reported about 19-thousand people killed.

Governments and relief agencies have recovered thousands more corpses while trying to treat survivors and take care of millions left homeless, increasingly at threat from disease.

Dr. David Nabarro, the head of crisis operations for the World Health Organisation, warns that disease could kill as many people as those killed by the wall of water.

Relief teams and rescuers have flown into the region from around the globe to help in what the United Nations says will be the biggest and costliest relief effort in its history.

The U-N is calling for generous aid response to tsunami-hit Asian countries.

It says hundreds of relief planes packed with emergency goods will arrive in southern Asia over the next two days.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Colin Powell says the United States "will do more" to aide the thousands affected by the earthquakes and tsunamis.

"We will do more. The world is now responding to this catastrophe. The United States has given more aid in the last four years than any other nation or combination of nations in the world. We had a significant increase in our development assistance and other kinds of assistance, and we will do more. "

Powell added the US is currently assessing the overall damage and will respond again once the assessment has been made.

The United States on Tuesday pledged another 20 million dollars in aid for victims of the Asian tsunami disaster, on top of the 15 million dollars already announced.

(CRIENGLISH.com)