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After the Boxing-Day tsunami killed her mother in India, seven-year-old Sangeeta was sent to an orphanage as her deaf and dumb father was not able to look after her and her siblings. She said whenever she thought of that day she would "start crying again" due to the "pain" of losing her mother. Sangeeta described seeing "hundreds of people being washed away" as she was surrounded by the sound of "people crying and screaming". Aged seventeen today, she has started studying IT and says her life has "got better". This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast's Children of the Tsunami on Thursday 18 December 2014.
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