கனேடிய பெண்மணி கடலில் மூழ்கி பரிதாப சாவு ...

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இலங்கையில் சுனாமி உதவி வேலைக்காக சென்ற ஒரு கனேடிய நாட்டு பெண்மணி Ms.Sonia Maheux என்பவர் திருகோணமலைக்கு அருகாமையில் கடலில் நீந்தும் போது கடலில் மூழ்கி மரணமானார்......

world news
Wednesday, Feb 09, 2005


Canadian tsunami aid worker drowns in Sri Lanka's rough eastern seas

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - A Canadian woman, believed to be a tsunami aid worker, drowned Wednesday while swimming in eastern Sri Lanka, police said.
The woman, Sonia Maheux, was swimming with a German man and a Sri Lankan translator when they got entrapped in a current, said Upali Hewage, the police chief of Trincomalee, 230 kilometres northeast of Colombo.

Trincomalee was one of the areas hardest hit by the Dec. 26 tsunami.

Hewage said the victim was believed to be a volunteer aid worker helping with tsunami relief work in the area, although it was not immediately known which agency she was attached to.

Her German colleague and the Sri Lankan were recovering at the Trincomalee hospital, he said.

Hewage said Sri Lanka's seas are rough during this time of year and people were warned against venturing out to sea.


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