More Children Killed in Asia Than Estimated

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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Relief workers are finding fewer children in camps for tsunami refugees than they'd hoped and fear that children make up an even greater percentage of the dead than was estimated earlier.

"You just don't see the little kids in the camps: babies, infants and toddlers," said Christine Knudsen, a senior officer for Save the Children, a nonprofit worldwide advocacy and relief group. "Let's hope we're wrong. But that's the trend right now."

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More Children Killed in Asia Than Estimated

Hard numbers are difficult to come by. Relief workers originally estimated that children made up 3 of every 10 people killed when an earthquake triggered a tsunami that swept the coasts of 12 count...

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