(5)Scenes after Dec. 26 quake-tsunami disaster

(5)Scenes after Dec. 26 quake-tsunami disaster

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A woman who lost her house outside Colombo sits down Jan. 2 amid images of Buddha and Christ taken out from houses that collapsed in the tsunami disaster caused by the Dec. 26 earthquake off Sumatra Island.

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