Indian woman shows brain scan after surviving tsunami

Anjammal Kannappan, 50, displays her brain scan in front of her emergency shelter in Nagappattinam, on the tsunami-hit southeastern coast of India. The giant waves washed her one kilometre inland, fracturing bones. They also killed her sister, two daughters and two grand-daughters. .The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses and tearing thousands of families apart. .Picture taken February 2005 in Nagapptinam, Tamil Nadu, India, by Justin Jin.

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$Anjammal Kannappan, 50, displays her brain scan in front of her emergency shelter in Nagappattinam, on the tsunami-hit southeastern coast of India. The giant waves washed her one kilometre inland, fracturing bones. They also killed her sister, two daughters and two grand-daughters. .The December 26, 2004 tsunami killed thousands of people along this coast, smashing boats, roads and houses and tearing thousands of families apart. .Picture taken February 2005 in Nagapptinam, Tamil Nadu, India, by Justin Jin.$