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January 3, 2005
Tsunami Roy - Miracle of the baby named for disaster
Topics: Southeast Asia Earthquake and TsunamiThis is day-old news but it goes well with the only other tsunami-related "feel good" stories I have about children so far. The other two are here (miracle baby) and here (school girl saves tourists). Now we have this story about Tsunami Roy.
Scotman.com News Jan 2.
WHILE the Boxing Day tidal wave was destroying
his parents' village and killing so many of their neighbours, this baby
boy slipped quietly into the world.
Tsunami Roy was born in woods above a wrecked village in the remote
Andaman and Nicobar islands after his parents fled for their lives when
the water surged in.
Last night his proud parents described how their miracle child was born
on the day of a disaster which killed more than 125,000 people around
the Indian Ocean.
His father Lakshmi Narain Roy, 34, said he grabbed his six-year-old
elder son and pregnant wife Namita, put them in a rickshaw and pedalled
for the hills as the tsunami began to engulf their coastal settlement
of Hut Bay.
His wife fell and briefly lost consciousness, but managed to revive
herself when she heard people screaming "the water is coming".
As the family and some of their lucky neighbours who escaped watched
the water destroy their homes, Mrs Roy, 26, began to complain of a pain
in her abdomen. Continue reading...
Posted by Hyscience at January 3, 2005 8:28 PM
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