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Article: AND WHAT OF THE SURVIVORS\ MANY ARE DAZED, UNABLE TO SPEAK, OVERCOME WITH GRIEF AT THE DEVASTATION THAT SWEPT AWAY THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 30, 2004
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Byline: Mark Magnier Los Angeles Times
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- It was a beautiful Sunday morning, with almost no wind, when a crowded train called the Queen of the Sea pulled out of Colombo station on schedule at 7:40 and headed down the coast.
Rumesh Priyankara was excited about his day in the country with his grandmother. A little more than an hour into the trip, however, the 14-year-old's idyll ended. Now he can't stop remembering the other passengers' screams that the sea was coming. The massive tsunami that knocked over the train's coaches like toys. The watery grave that swallowed his grandmother and 800 other people on board the train.
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