Father of tsunami victims celebrates birth of triplets

DARMI ALI lost his three daughters and wife to the 2004 tsunami, but the 44-year-old remarried and last week became a father again…of female triplets.

‘‘I am overjoyed,’’ said Ali, a police officer who was back at work yesterday at regional headquarters in Aceh, the Indonesian province worst hit by the disaster.

‘‘I lost my three daughters, and now they have been replaced by three other girls.’’