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Tsunami victims remembered

By Our Staff Reporter

KOLLAM, JAN. 26. People from all walks of life joined a solemn procession this morning at Alapad, organised jointly by the Quilon Social Service Society (QSSS) and the Kerala Catholic Youth Movement (KCYM), to remember those killed in the December 26 tsunami.

On reaching the memorial mandapam at Srayikad, where the bodies of those killed are cremated, a commemoration meeting was also organised.

The Karunagapally MLA, Rajan Babu, the KCYM State president, Binu John, and the QSSS director, Romans Antony, delivered commemoration messages. Then floral tributes were paid at the mandapam.

Accommodating 720 families, the QSSS camp at Azheekal is the biggest relief camp in Alapad.

The camp was being managed by the Sisters of Charity, the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and the Capuchin Brothers.

A unit of the Bishop Benziger Hospital also functioned from the camp.

Fr. Antony said that the QSSS intended constructing 700 houses for those in Alapad, who had lost their house.

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