SRI LANKA: 70 TOURISTS HAVE DROWNED AFTER TSUNAMI HIT YALA NATIONAL PARK

Record ID: 312330

  • Title: SRI LANKA: 70 TOURISTS HAVE DROWNED AFTER TSUNAMI HIT YALA NATIONAL PARK
  • Date: 30th December 2004
  • Summary: (W4) YALA NATIONAL PARK, SRI LANKA (DECEMBER 30, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV OF BRITISH OFFICIALS LOOKING AT A MAP ON THEIR JEEP 0.03 2. CLOSE OF MAP 0.07 3. CLOSE OF OFFICIALS GETTING IN TO JEEP 0.13 4. SLV VEHICLES DRIVING AWAY 0.21 5. VARIOUS OF YALA NATIONAL PARK ENTRANCE/ SIGN 0.30 6. VARIOUS OF WILD ANIMALS 0.36 7. VARIOUS OF FALLEN TREES AND SMASHED CARS 0.44 8. WIDE OF CRANE PREPARING TO LIFT SMASHED CAR 0.48 9. SLV WORKERS FIXING CHAIN TO WRECKED CAR 0.54 10. WIDE OF BUILDING SURROUNDED BY FALLEN TREES 0.58 11. VARIOUS OF MAN COVERING HIS FACE LOOKING AT BODY IN HOSPITAL MORTUARY 1.09 12. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) DOCTOR PUSHPA KUMARA SAYING "Seven dead bodies identified came to" 1.17 13. SLV BOY AND HIS FATHER IN HOSPITAL 1.21 14. SCU WASAD MOHAMMED JAFFAR, 43-YEAR-OLD FISHERMAN 1.25 15. PAN TO 12-YEAR-OLD MOHAMMED SIAPAN JAFFAR 1.30 16. SCU FISHERMAN CRYING 1.35 17. CLOSE OF SON WITH BANDAGED ARM 1.40 18. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Singahalese) WASAD MOHAMMED JAFFAR, 43-YEAR-OLD FISHERMAN SAYING: "At the time this happened, people were shouting the sea was coming in. And we didnt' know whether that was true or false." 1.54 19. CLOSE OF CHILD 2.01 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: YALA NATIONAL PARK, SRI LANKA
  • Country: Sri Lanka
  • Reuters ID: LVA5M5LILU0ZDHTMN6U7HICLHMBI
  • Story Text: At least 70 tourists, including nine Japanese,
    drowned when Sunday's tsunami hit Sri Lanka's Yala National
    Park.



    Giant waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km (2 miles)
    inland at Sri Lanka's famed Yala National Park in the
    ravaged southeast, the country's biggest wildlife reserve
    and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards.

    At least 70 tourists, including nine Japanese, were
    drowned. The local morgue confirmed that it retained the
    bodies of nine foreigners.

    Sri Lankan authorities said earlier that rescue workers
    had found the bodies of 22 people believed to be Japanese
    on safari at Yala national park. Japanese public
    broadcaster NHK said Japan's Foreign Ministry was still
    unable to contact 14 Japanese tourists in Sri Lanka.

    Cars and tourist buses had been blown hundreds of
    metres (yards) inland by the surge of water, their twisted
    remains now part of the mangrove landscape.

    The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the
    Indian Ocean on Sunday (December 26), which sent waves up
    to 5-metres (15-feet) high crashing onto Sri Lanka's
    southern, eastern and northern seaboard, flooding whole
    towns and villages, destroying hotels and causing
    widespread destruction.
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