Summary: Sri Lanka Tsunami Train Victims
QUEEN OF THE SEA: Sri Lanka officials say 1,000 tickets were sold for an excursion Sunday from the capital, Colombo, to beach resorts on the train known as "Samudradevi," or "Queen of the Sea."
TRAGEDY STRIKES: The train was swept off the track by Sunday's tsunami.
AFTERMATH: More than 800 people were killed; no relatives claimed 204 of the bodies, so they were buried in a mass grave along the railway line. "This was the only thing we could do," said Venerable Baddegama Samitha, a Buddhist monk and former parliamentarian. "The bodies were rotting. We gave them a decent burial."
"a Buddhist monk and former parliamentarian."
I thought the predominate religon in Sri Lanka was Hindu? I didn't realize there were any real number of Buddists there. Can anyone here give the breakdown, by affected country, of religons and there makeup of the population?
Hindu
Isamalic
Buddist
Christian
Other