For Tsunami Orphan, No Name but Many Parents
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In the story of Baby No. 81 lies a hint of the raw and peculiar distress of Sri Lanka's bereaved parents.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka As many as half the victims of South Asia&#39;s quake and waves are believed to be children. And an official of the UN Children&#39;s Fund says the concern now is that children who survived the tsunamis may be at severe risk from their aftermath.
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Families in the United States are asking about adopting children from areas devastated by the tsunami, but adoption officials say it's too early to consider bringing orphaned children into the country.
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So many Sri Lankan children have been orphaned by the tsunami that the government appealed on Sunday for doctors, psychologists and paediatricians to help give counselling.
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A mother who was swept away by the tsunami knew she could not hold on to both of her young boys and had to decide which one to let go of.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - This fishing village just  north of Thailand's Khao Lak beach does not exist any more and  Maitri Sayput, 47, thinks that after Sunday's tsunami she is  one of its few survivors.
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The sight of a sobbing orphan stranded in a landscape of death and disaster moves people deeply.
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The Asian tsunami tragedy is feared to have claimed at least 50 British lives, with many more still unaccounted for. Back home, scores of families face an anxious wait for news of loved ones missing after the Boxing Day disaster.
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Across nations and religions there has been a search for explanations of why the tsunami killed some and not others.
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Two-year-old Hannes Bergstroem doesn't understand much about the tsunami that swept him away from a beach in Thailand, though he "talks about 'the big stupid wave,'" his father said Friday.
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As dawn breaks over Sri Lanka's coast, dozens of parents come to the beach where huge waves seized their children a week ago. "They believe their kids are alive and the sea will return them &#151; one day," UNICEF chief Carol Bellamy said on Sunday, after touring this island country's tsunami-devastated shore.
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With their lives in tatters, faith is all that many victims of India's tsunami tragedy have left.
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AS each hour passes, anguish and despair mounts for relatives of a beloved Victorian family of four, missing in the ravaged Asian region hit by the tsunami.
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A lack of coordination in the relief effort for survivors of a deadly tsunami in south India has led to an excess of supplies in some villages while others lack the most basic necessities.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The last time Amiruddin saw his shy 7-year-old daughter was three weeks ago when the tsunami snatched her away.
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Two weeks after the event, the number and location of the tsunami's survivors in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, remain a mystery. The IRC, like other relief groups, is moving ahead on the assumption that its efforts will find, or attract, people who need help.
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Distraught relatives and friends of those missing after the most catastrophic tsunami on record are increasingly turning to the Internet to search for loved ones.