British "Angel of the Beach" closes tsunami rites


  • World
  • Monday, 26 Dec 2005

KHAO LAK, Thailand (Reuters) - British schoolgirl Tilly Smith, dubbed the "Angel of the Beach" for saving scores of lives during the Dec. 26 tsunami, returned to the scene of the disaster on Monday to commemorate the anniversary with a poem. 

"It wasn't devastation or death that won the day. 

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