WONG: When 25-year-old Krishna Kumari left for hospital in the morning of
December 26 last year with early labour pains, little did she know that she would come back to a devastated house and a village ruined by the killer tsunami
waves.
Now, one year later, she still has something to celebrate amidst the mourning.
STORY: S.Amrtithana turned a year-old on Monday. Her mother Kumari believes it is not short of a miracle for Amrithana to have survived. The hospital became almost abandoned within minutes of water crashing into its wards.
“Everybody ran away from the hospital when I gave birth to my
child. In the meantime, my husband came and stayed there with me. But it
really became very difficult when it was time for us to go back home.”
Where the girl was born, Tamil Nadu, was the worst affected Indian state in the tsunami, claiming over 6,000 lives, more than a third of them children.
India revised down its earlier figure of 5,640 missing after lowering
its estimate of people missing in the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
Her mother decided not to celebrate as a mark of respect to the departed souls.