Swept Up In Grief

Newcastle Herald

Tuesday December 28, 2004

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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.

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