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The trauma of 10-year-old Javed!
The furious seas devoured her father and mother and the Class V student was left alone in wilderness to battle for life.
It was a traumatic holiday for 10-year-old Arman Javed after she lost her parents in the killer tsunami and gasped for life in a hysterical state alone in the forests of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Javed and her parents had gone to Pilpilo village in the Katchal Island to celebrate Christmas but fate had something else in store.
The furious seas devoured her father and mother and the Class V student of Carmel Convent School was left alone in wilderness to battle for life.
The girl managed to escape the wrath of tsunami waves on the Boxing Day after rushing to the forests. She later reached the Nancowry Hospital.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands MP Manoranjan Bhakta brought Javed to Port Blair by a chopper before she was handed over to her grandfather on Monday.
