Sri Lanka investigates alleged case of tsunami child sale

Sri Lankan authorities are investigating an alleged attempt to sell two children orphaned by last month’s tsunami, police said today.

A 60-year-old man tried to sell the children, aged 12 and 13, in Balapitiya, near the hard-hit southern city of Galle, said police officer W Wijesena. Police, however, were tipped off of the sale and arrested the man yesterday, he said.