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In devastated village, some fear a return to the sea.
Byline: Ken Moritsugu
KALLAR, India _ For three generations, the ocean sustained Sumathi Bakkarisami's fishing family. Now, it sends shivers down her spine.
"When I see the sea, I'm afraid," she said Friday in the doorway of her ruined home, the surf crashing a few hundred yards behind her. "Please take me away from this place."
From many of the fisherman who populate south India's coast, last Sunday's tsunami took away not only families and possessions but also the boats that brought in the bounty. Yet for most survivors, there is little choice but to return to the only profession they know.
Three hundred people were killed, and another 300 are missing and presumed dead in the village of Kallar, a few miles south of the city of Nagappattinam. Pools of sea water surround heavily damaged homes near the beach. A utility pole of reinforced concrete lies snapped at the base, cut down like a tree. Across an inlet, smoke rises up from the unending cremations of bodies on the beach.
The events of last Sunday remain etched in the mind of Bakkarisami, a stoutly-build 32-year-old woman.
When she and her children saw the water rushing toward their front door, they sprinted toward the back door. The water moved so fast, it got there first.
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