SURIVIVORS OF TIDAL WAVE SIT IN FIELD HOSPITAL IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA NORTHWEST COAST

SYD03:PAPUA-WAVE:VANIMO,PAPUA NEW GUINEA,21JUL98 - Pauline Awingai sits with her children Magdalene and Seliu in Vanimo Hospital in northwestern Papua New Guinea July 20, after she surivived 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