An infant missing after the December 2004 South Asian Tsunami tragedy has now been traced, officials said Thursday.
Anoma Dissanayake, the chairman of National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) said the child now six years old was found in a house at Wellampitiya, a north Colombo suburb.
The NCPA said the child had been sold for 2,500 rupees (US$ 22) to the present guardians of the child by a member of hospital staff at the southern town of Galle which received most of the devastation from the tsunami.
The department would now ask the real parents to have DNA tests to prove the ownership of the child, Dissanayake said.
Around 30,000 people were killed by the 2004 tsunami which devastated two thirds of Sri Lanka's coastal line. Nearly 100,000 homes were also destroyed. (PNA/Xinhua)
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