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What effect do you think the nucluer testing by India and other nations in the Indian Ocean could of attributed to this disaster?

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None at all. India's tests took place in the Thar Desert (around 4000km from Sumatra(if my geography's right). If we humble mortals could cause such events, then it stands to reason that other countries that have tested nuclear weapons would face the threat of earthquakes on a far more regular basis. What happened was a natural disaster, and as an Indian myself, I can only feel grief that so many people lost their lives undeservedly.

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Dr Gulbstrand, from Stockholm, said her family was in the temple - temporarily converted into a shelter - when she heard cries. Her son ran to her calling "Mammy, mammy, there is a little Swedish boy. Come see him."

Kalle, wearing only underwear, had a broken collar bone, bruises and cuts. He screamed as a medical worker stitched his torn feet without anesthetic.

Gulbstrand said Kalle - pale, with dark half-rings under his eyes - was clearly in shock. That night the doctor slept alongside him, and on Tuesday he told her his story.

He'd been in a hotel room Sunday morning with his brothers, 5-year-old Olof and Vilgot, 3. His parents, Thomas and Asa, of Lulea, Sweden, were outside.

Suddenly water gushed into the room.

"He told me, `I was under the water but somehow I could breathe. I was just closing my eyes and moving with the waves. Then, suddenly the flood ended and I was in another city.," Gulbstrand said.

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The toddler was found dazed and alone on a roadside in the wasteland of a tsunami-devastated Thai resort. Now the young child has been reunited with his uncle, who spotted the child's picture on the Internet.

The boy, identified by his uncle as Hannes Bergstroem, was found Sunday night on a road in Phang Nga province near the beach resort of Khao Lak, about 60 miles from the island of Phuket. He was taken to Phuket International Hospital where the staff posted pictures of the blond-haired boy with red spots all over his face from mosquito bites on its Web site on Monday. They also published his photo in a local newspaper.

A man, who identified himself only as Jim, told the Associated Press on Tuesday in a telephone interview that he found his nephew after he saw his picture on the Web.

"When I saw Hannes on the Internet, I booked an air ticket to come here in less than five hours," said Jim, who rushed to the Phuket hospital on Tuesday from Chonburi province in Thailand, hours away from Phuket, where he was staying. "This is a miracle, the biggest thing that could happen."

Hospital staff said the boy had been babbling but workers did not know what language he was speaking They thought he might be Swedish because he was enthusiastic when a man spoke Swedish to him.

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