Colombo, Sri Lanka ? The skeletal remains of 29 people have been found near the site where the Dec. 26 tsunami swept away a commuter train in one of the single worst losses of life from the disaster, police said Tuesday.

The train’s 2,000 reported victims included villagers who had jumped on board seeking safety from the waves. Only 824 bodies have been identified.

The 29 skeletons were recovered Monday from muddy water, said Consul Korala, the police chief of Meetiyagoda, close to where the Queen of the Sea train was swept away by the giant waves about 50 miles south of the capital, Colombo.

The remains of at least 36 people were recovered near the site in February.

Sri Lanka’s National Disaster Management Center and the Social Services Ministry have said the death toll from the tsunami stands at more than 31,000. Nearly 5,000 others remain missing.

At least 172,000 people across Asia died in the tsunami, and 125,000 are presumed dead. Most of the victims were in Indonesia’s Aceh province.

In Indonesia, a long-awaited master plan to rebuild the tsunami-shattered province of Aceh could take another six months to draft, a government official said Tuesday.

That process will include reviving the region’s devastated fishing industry, which supplies livelihoods to hundreds of thousands of families.

Meanwhile, the tiny Sri Lankan tsunami survivor known as “Baby 81” headed Tuesday to the United States to appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America” with his parents.

Murugupillai Jeyarajah, his wife, Jenita, and their 4-month-old son, Abilass, were granted expedited visas by the U.S. Embassy, U.S. Consul General Marc Williams said.