• An Indonesian girl separated from her family during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has been reunited with her relatives after seven years living as a street child, her parents.

  •  Mary Yuranda (whose origininal name is Wati), who is now 14, showed up at a cafe in the city of Meulaboh, in the tsunami-battered Aceh province, looking for her parents.

  • She was reunited with them after a local taxi driver identified her family from details she had provided, ending a seven-year ordeal in which she lived with a woman who forced her to beg on the streets.
 
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