On Sri Lankan coast, devastation and divisions
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KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka Abdul Hamid Ansar woke up before dawn, whispered prayers, gulped down a cup of steaming tea and resumed his surreal new existence: overseer of Sri Lanka&#39;s coast of death.
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The Indian Ocean region starts to assess the damage wrought by sea surges that killed about 23,000 people.
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Shouting names of the missing relatives, looking around to identify the loved ones and moving bodies for burials -- all are the scene in a Sri Lankan coastal town a day after the sudden tsunamis.
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WITHIN seconds, unexpected devastation swept through Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, Indonesia, and Thailand changing the lives of millions.
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COLOMBO  - Sri Lanka mounted a massive humanitarian operation after tsunamis devastated much of the island&#39;s coastline, killing almost 11,000 people of whom 70 were foreign tourists.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - One of the most powerful  earthquakes in history hit southern Asia Sunday, unleashing a  tsunami on Sri Lanka and India and swamping tourist isles in  Thailand and the Maldives to kill more than 7,100 people.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Among the legions of traumatized Sri Lankan fishermen whose lives were ravaged by the tsunami are many who are not sure they can go back to the simple lives they and their families once led by the sea.
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COLOMBO: Mass funerals were underway in Sri Lanka as the death toll from the tidal wave disaster neared 12,000 with decomposed bodies pulled from washed out trains, cars and devastated buildings, officials said.
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AMBALANGODA, Sri Lanka -- Asia's tsunami disaster dealt sharply different fates to those along the coasts, depending on how far they lived from the shore.
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The BBC's correspondents report on the devastation caused by Sunday's tsunamis across the Indian Ocean.
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Sri Lankans trying to come to terms with piles of corpses left by a tsunami may never know the actual death toll because of the disaster's unprecedented scale, different methods of counting and the politics of an ethnic war.
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On India's southern shores, the BBC's Soutik Biswas finds people reeling from a huge number of casualties.
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Haunting images of the tsunami's aftermath attracted both aid and criticism.
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PERALIYA, Sri Lanka  - In a small room up a   rickety staircase in a tsunami-damaged building on Sri Lanka's   south coast, Roshan Waduthantri sits glued to an earthquake   warning Web site and monitors cable TV channels.
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Survivors and rescuers are battling through the devastation left by sea surges that killed more than 15,000 people on Asia&#39;s southern shores.
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Recovery efforts were under way in eastern Sri Lanka after overloaded boats carrying refugees from the rebel-held Vakarai region capsized.  At least 13 people are feared drowned, the BBC reported.  Fighting in the area in recent weeks has displaced tens of thousands of people.
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Sri Lankans of all castes and creeds are pulling together to try to salvage what remains of their lives, following a series of tsunami waves that devastated coastlines across Asia.