The number of people killed when an earthquake and tsunamis devastated Indian Ocean coastlines on December 26 has passed 165,000 as more deaths were confirmed.

In Indonesia, which bore the brunt of the disaster, the death toll has climbed to 113,306, the Social Affairs Ministry's relief coordination centre told AFP on Friday.

The United Nations has warned that tens of thousands more dead may be as yet unaccounted for in Indonesia.

The figure, given by the head of the relief coordination centre, Haji Daeng, raises the number of people confirmed killed in Indonesia by nearly 20,000 from the previous day's tally of 94,200.

In Sri Lanka, 30,615 were confirmed killed, the Government said. Another 4,356 people were still missing.

In neighbouring India, the official toll stood at 9,995 people confirmed dead, but the number of missing dropped to 5,679, most of them presumed dead.

Interior Ministry figures for Thailand put the death toll at 5,291 - 2,568 Thais, 2,510 foreigners and 213 whose indentity could not be determined.

The number of people listed as missing fell sharply to 3,570 - 1,143 foreigners and 2,427 Thais - down from nearly 3,716, as some people were found to have made reports of missing people at several centres, an official said.

Burma's Prime Minister Soe Win said on Thursday 59 people were killed in the tsunamis and more than 3,200 left homeless.

This was down from the UN's estimated 90.

At least 82 people were killed and another 26 were missing in the Maldives, a Government spokesman said.

Sixty-eight people were dead in Malaysia, most of them in Penang, according to police, while in Bangladesh a father and child were killed after a tourist boat capsized in large waves, officials said.

Fatalities also occurred on the east coast of Africa where 298 people were declared dead in Somalia, 10 in Tanzania and one in Kenya.