Fifteen years on, young Indian woman struggles after tsunami 'took away everything'

FILE PHOTO: Saranya (R), who lost four siblings and her family home in the tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people across the coasts of several Asian countries, poses with her younger sister Reena and their brother Mohan outside a house in Nagapattinam district in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India, December 4, 2019. REUTERS/P. Ravikumar

SERUTHUR, India (Reuters) - Saranya was only nine when the giant waves hit her family's village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Boxing Day in 2004.

"The water took away everything," said Saranya, who lost four siblings and her family home in the tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people across the coasts of several Asian countries.