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Article: Turning the tide: one year later, no major post-tsunami health disaster.(YOUR WORLD)(Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, 2004)
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- December 1, 2005
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Arojia Raj, left, keeps a familiar routine. Each day, the 13-year-old leaves school and walks barefoot across hot sand, past bamboo huts pitched beside ruined homes. There, he stops and stares at the sea, finally gazing at a shrine honoring the 49 schoolchildren who lost their lives to the tsunami. Arojia lives in Kuttauli in the Tamil Nabu state of southern India.
"It was a beautiful day," Arojia says, thinking back to Dec. 26, 2004, when a tsunami killed 280,000 people throughout Asia. "I remember it was 10 o'clock in the morning. My father was a fisherman, and I was going to help him with the nets. But I heard people screaming that the water had turned black, ...
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