Monday, December 26, 2011

Indonesian tsunami girl 'turns up after seven years presumed dead'

The girl named Wati, 15, who uses just one name, was ripped from her mother's grasp in the province of Aceh by the raging waters and has not been seen since.

But on Wednesday a friend of the girl's grandfather, Ibrahim, brought a teenaged girl in a headscarf to his house in the city of Meulaboh.

She had been discovered sitting in silence in a coffee bar, but when questioned she said that she had come by bus from Banda Aceh and was trying to find her way home and did not know how.

The girl said she could not remember any of her relatives' names except Ibrahim, which made her grandfather think she could be his long-lost grandchild.

He immediately summoned her parents, Yusniar and Yusuf, who confirmed that the dark-skinned Wati was their daughter from a mole and a small scar on her elbow. Read More

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