God, God, God ... why, why, why?

AFTER the couple had laid the body of their daughter in a deep pit, a bulldozer poured sand and the little girl disappeared from their view forever.

Then they were asked to move aside and make way for the others who had their own loved ones to bury, denied any chance for a service or private mourning.

In a scene repeated dozens of times, weeping and red-eyed parents held a mass burial yesterday for more than 150 children who died in the killer tidal wave that battered India's south-eastern coast.