Impact: After Indonesia, Sri
Lanka suffered more from the tsunami than anywhere else. Its southern
and eastern coastlines were ravaged. More than 100,000 homes were damaged
or destroyed, along with crops and fishing boats. The International Labour
Organization estimates more than 400,000 people lost their jobs as a result
- mostly in the fishing, hotel and tourism sectors.
Toll: More than 31,000 people died and more than 4,000 have been reported
missing. More than half a million people were made homeless. In one of
the worst incidents, more than 800 people died when a train was struck
by the tsunami at Telwatta, in the south-west. -BBC
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