Shattered village fears sea that sustained it
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Chicago Tribune - Even if the fury of the tsunami hadn't shredded their nets and crushed their boats, many of the men in this village of fishermen vow they will never return to the sea.
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In one tsunami-hit Thai town, more than half of the 5,000-strong population are missing, police say.
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NANO VILLAGE, Pakistan -- Troops and rescue workers raced to a coastal town ruined when heavy rains burst a large dam, sending water surging through the streets and sweeping people into the Arabian Sea. At least 54 were dead and hundreds missing, officials said yesterday.
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A major incident is declared by rescue services in north Cornwall after a 3m-tall wave crashes through a village.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand -- This fishing village north of Thailand's Khao Lak beach no longer exists. Maitri Sayput, 47, thinks she is one of its few survivors.
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A car damaged by Sunday&#39;s tsunami is perched on a rock at Khao Lak beach, about 900 km (560 miles) south of Bangkok, December 28, 2004.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Nearly 41 years ago, Alaskan  Doug McCrae was clinging to a roof with his family as huge  waves of debris-choked water slammed into Seward and other  coastal Alaska towns after a magnitude 9.2 earthquake shook  nearby Prince William Sound.
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NAGAPATTINAM, India  - It took just a few seconds  for Shiva Shankari, like her village, to lose her future.
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Rescue workers combed a coastal village in north Cornwall for missing persons after a flash flood sent a wall of water tearing through the picturesque tourist spot the day before.
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Environmentalists fear a maritime disaster if a beached coal freighter in eastern Australia breaks up.
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Standing head bowed amid the rubble of his house in this flattened west coast village, Dinesh Priyantha remembered the exact moment one month ago when a mammoth wave carried three of his aunts to their deaths.
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PADANG, Indonesia - The ground shook so hard that Yulinar had to grab a table to steady herself. Minutes later, she heard a warning crackling over the speakers of the neighborhood mosque - a tsunami could crash into her fishing village on Indonesia's Sumatra island at any minute.
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Nearly 41 years ago, Alaskan Doug McCrae was clinging to a roof with his family as huge waves of debris-choked water slammed into Seward and other coastal Alaska towns after a magnitude 9.2 earthquake shook nearby Prince William Sound.
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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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Boscastle, a fishing village in Cornwall, has been devastated by a flash flood following torrential rain and a rising tide.
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The tsunami earlier this week devastated a train that had come to a halt on the outskirts of the tiny Sri Lankan village of Hikkaduwa, as massive waves slammed into a dozen carriages, hurling them across the countryside into coconut groves, fields and flimsy huts, authorities said Tuesday.
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The BBC's Andrew North witnesses the destruction wrought by the tsunami in the remote Indonesian town of Meulaboh.