GALLE, Jan 17: Asia's tsunami death toll soared past 175,000 on Monday as Sri Lanka confirmed thousands more dead, while fears re-emerged over the safety of aid workers in Indonesia's shattered Aceh province.
Denmark said it had information "imminent" terror attacks were planned against aid workers in Aceh, where US and other foreign troops have joined relief teams clearing rubble from the Dec. 26 disaster which killed 115,000 in that province alone.
"We have received information from sources abroad that somebody would be planning an attack today," Danish Foreign Ministry official Niels Erik Andersen told Danish radio.
Indonesia's foreign minister dismissed the report as "unfounded rumour". But it reignited fears that aid workers might become political targets in Indonesia, which has seen both a separatist rebellion in Aceh and deadly bomb attacks targeting Westerners blamed on a group linked to Al Qaeda. -Reuters
