TIDAL WAVE SURIVIVOR IS CHECKED BY PAPUA NEW GUINEAN PRIME MINISTER BILL SKATE

SYD05:PAPUA-WAVE:SISSAMO,PAPUA NEW GUINEA,21JUL98 - Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Bill Skate checks an injured boy in the village of Sissamo in northwestern Papua New Guinea July 21, following a tidal wave on July 17. More than 1,200 people are confirmed dead with 6,000 unaccounted for after three tidal waves destroyed villages on Papua New Guinea's remote northwest coast, washing hundreds of people away, burying others alive and leaving thousands homeless. (AUSTRALIA OUT,NO ARK) mdb/News Ltd/Photo by Patrick Hamilton REUTERS