Media Officer Adeel Jafferi visited in Sri Lanka as part of IR's Emergency Response Team. The team is currently distributing aid to survivors of the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka.

Wednesday 5th January: Waves the size of a three-storey building hit a village called Maruthamunai in the Ampara District of Sri Lanka. It was a community of predominantly Muslim Sinhalese fishermen and textile weavers. Before the disaster, it had a population of 21,000; in one day, 2500 people were killed here.

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