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A teenage Indonesian girl away in the Indian Ocean tsunami on Boxing Day seven years ago has been with her family. Fifteen-year-old Wati was eight when the devastating tsunami out the village of Ujong Baroh in Sumatra’s Aceh province. Her family survived the tidal wave but little Wati was away. The last time her mother saw her was when the water carried the little girl away. She was desperately to her three children in an to keep them all together, but her were in vain as she lost her grip on Wati. Yusniar never thought she would see her daughter alive again. Wati’s family made attempts to find her but no one seeing her alive.

A happened last Wednesday when her grandfather Ibrahim, who lived in another town, got a from an acquaintance who was with a teenage girl. Wati had the old man in his coffee shop. She told him she was trying to get back to her village but did not know the . Ibrahim the teenager might be his long-lost grand-daughter but she could not remember any of her parents’ of relatives’ names, except Ibrahim’s. Wati’s was confirmed by her parents several days later from a mole and a above her eyebrow that she got when she was six years old. It is still what happened to Wati in her seven-year absence. The tsunami killed more than 150,000 people in Indian Ocean nations.

 

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