Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Guniness record saves village
Little did they realise at the time that the trees would save their lives.
When the tsunami roared into the coast of southern India on 26 December many villages and towns were crushed as the giant waves swept across open beaches.
But the people of Naluvedapathy in Vedaranyam district, south of the Tamil Nadu's worst affected areas around Nagapattinam, remained almost unscathed.
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