A Swedish tourist Johan Kruse with his family in
Stockholm on December 29 after their return from Sri Lanka. Kruse was enjoying a two-week Christmas break with his family until the tidal waves hit Sunday, leaving his hotel south of the beach resort Bentota, Sri Lanka, ruined, and an entire village of bungalows obliterated. After watching a devastating tsunami wash away an entire Sri Lankan beach, Johan Kruse said it wasn't the destruction that he'll remember, but
residents' selflessness and willingness to help tourists after disaster struck.
— AP/PTI
