Sri Lankan Town Struggles to Cope in Tsunami Aftermath
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At first, American tourist Matthew O'Connell thought the rising sea was the sign of a good day's surfing ahead.
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Torrential rains brought fresh hardship to tsunami survivors in eastern Sri Lanka on Sunday, flooding refugee camps, forcing the evacuation of at least one and leaving others dotted with stagnant pools.
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com. A number of local relief efforts from a wide variety of local communities have sprung up around the island for victims of the Asian tsunami catastrophe.
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Volunteers and emergency workers carry a girl from Marina beach after a powerfull tsunami hit the Indian city of Madras yesterday.
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Rescuers struggled on Thursday to reach remote towns and villages in Indonesia's Aceh province, devastated by the biggest earthquake in 40 years and the tsunami that followed it.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka -- Kegalle Panangarama, a Buddhist monk and community leader, expressed frustration as he outlined the obstacles plaguing local recovery efforts in his tsunami-wrecked region.
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Sri Lanka, December 30: Already haunted by fears of a new tsunami or spread of disease, survivors picking through debris of entire towns to recover corpses at Sri Lanka&#39;s northern tip face a new danger -- floating landmines.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Rescuers battled to reach survivors in stranded villages, restore basic services, and prevent the outbreak of deadly diseases across South Asia yesterday in the aftermath of a massive undersea earthquake and subsequent tsunami that ravaged the region.
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On foot, by bicycle or in motorized rickshaw taxis, the people of this east coast village began returning home Wednesday as Sri Lanka turned its attention from relief efforts to resettling people uprooted by the Asian tsunami.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Desperate survivors  huddle in clearings without food or shelter above the water  line all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float as far as 20 miles out to sea.
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Langi Martinga, 50, a tsunami victim from the from Car Nicobar island, looks on at a relief camp in Port Blair, in India&#39;s southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004.
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Sri Lankans lit candles and chanted prayers for the dead to mark one month since the tsunami Wednesday, and mourners on a Thai island launched two new fishing boats in a first step toward rebuilding the devastated local fleet. On the hardest-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra, there were no memorials, but children went back to school and the empty desks of dead classmates.
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People here seem bewildered by the enormity of what has happened to their country. Sri Lankan military officials say more than 12,000 people died on the island nation.
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Sri Lankaâs botched tsunami reconstruction efforts are aggravating political violence.
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Butchers, shop keepers and restaurant owners in this devastated city opened for business on Thursday, while a traditional marketplace bustled, as tsunami survivors defiantly began to rebuild their lives.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  - Rescuers scoured the sea for  missing tourists and fishermen in Asia Monday and fears of  disease grew as emergency services struggled with rotting  bodies from a devastating tsunami that killed more than 23,200  people.
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In one tsunami-hit Thai town, more than half of the 5,000-strong population are missing, police say.