Grieving parents abducting tsunami orphans

Grieving families of Sri Lankan children who perished in the tsunamis are abducting orphans from the disaster area without approval, a move denounced today by the government and an aid organisation.

An official from the Department of Child Care and Protection said he had heard of a dozen cases in Galle and Matara, on Sri Lanka’s southern coast, in which orphaned children had been taken in by families that lost loved ones. He asked families to stop.