Indonesian girl found safe ten years after Boxing Day tsunami

Rescued by a fisherman after being swept out to sea by huge waves in 2004, she has now been reunited with her family

Indonesian girl reunited with her mother in Meulaboh
(Image credit: CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP/Getty Images)

A young Indonesian girl has been reunited with her family a decade after she was presumed dead, killed by the Boxing Day tsunami.

Raudhatul Jannah, then four-years old, was swept away with her seven-year old brother when large waves struck their home in West Aceh on the northern Indonesian island of Sumatra on the 26 December 2004.

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