Back Home And Safe, Australians Relive The Hell

The first Australians returned home last night from sites devastated by tidal waves and told of running in terror as surging water swept bodies to sea.

Swept Up In Grief

SIX-MONTH-OLD Melina Heppell is one of two Australians confirmed among the 23,000 dead in tsunami-devastated South-East Asia. Melina, from Western Australia, was swept from her father's arms on Patong Beach, in Phuket, Thailand, when tidal waves hit on Sunday.