Article: Arthur C. Clarke regrets lack of warning system in his adopted home Sri Lanka where 22,799 died in tsunami.

DILIP GANGULY, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-30-2004
Dateline: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's best known resident, science fiction writer and visionary Arthur C. Clarke, said Thursday he and his family were safe, but regretted the lack of a warning system in his adopted home of Sri Lanka.

Sunday's massive earthquake and tsunami killed at least 22,799 people in the South Asian nation and injured another 8,815, according to official tolls. Some 4,059 remained missing and nearly 1 million people were homeless.

"I am enormously relieved that my family and household have escaped the ravages of the sea that suddenly invaded most parts of coastal Sri Lanka, leaving a trail of ...

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