Girl reunited with parents after 2004 tsunami
An Indonesian girl separated from her family during the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has been reunited with her relatives after seven years living as a street child.
Mary Yuranda, who is now 14, showed up at a cafe in the city of Meulaboh in the tsunami-battered Aceh province, looking for her parents.
A local taxi driver helped her return home on Wednesday after she told him the names of her village and her grandfather, a well-known religious leader in the village.
The reunion ended a seven-year ordeal in which Mary lived with a widow who forced her to beg on the streets.
"When she saw her mother she yelled 'mama' and ran toward her," her father, Tarmius, said.
"Both of them hugged each other and cried."....
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