More, but less amusing than usual, quotes
“We are struggling to cope. Bodies are still coming in,” Karapitiya Teaching Hospital administrator Dr HG Jayaratne told Reuters.
“Death came from the sea,” Satya Kumari, a construction worker living in Pondicherry, told Reuters. “The waves just kept chasing us. It swept away all our huts. What did we do to deserve this?”
One man, Rajali, told the Associated Press news agency he could not find dry ground to bury his wife and two children.
“At a very conservative estimate I would say that 3,000 people are dead and as many missing,” the islands’ police chief SB Deol told local TV.
… and all from one news source [bbc.co.uk] that reports over 20,000 dead. Heartbreaking.