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Indonesia girl back with family after 2004 tsunami

Updated on: 23 December,2011 02:02 PM IST  | 
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A girl who was swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami seven years ago has been reunited with her parents.

Indonesia girl back with family after 2004 tsunami

A girl who was swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami seven years ago has been reunited with her parents.


Fifteen-year-old Wati showed up at a cafe in Meulaboh, a city in Aceh province, earlier this week, saying she'd been forced to work as a beggar and had finally broken free. She said she was looking for her family.


Wati was led to a man named Ibrahim, her grandfather, who summoned her parents, Yusniar and Yusuf.


The parents said they lost three daughters when the tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen nations slammed into their tiny village of Ujong Baroh.

The mother, Yusniar, said she recognised Wati by the small scar over her eyebrow and a mole on her hip.

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