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More Women die in tsunami - Oxfam report SYDNEY, Friday (AFP) - Four times more women than men were killed in some areas hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami, creating long-term social problems for devastated communities as they try to rebuild, a leading charity has warned. In a report due to be released Saturday, Oxfam Community Aid Abroad International says the impact of the December 26 disaster in the affected communities will be long lasting. "The tsunami dealt a crushing blow to women and men across the region," Oxfam Australia executive director Andrew Hewett said in a statement. "In some villages it now appears that up to 80 percent of those killed were women. The impact on the gender balance within the community seems to be so severe that the consequences are going to ripple right through the whole society for many years to come." It also said men were more likely than women to learn to swim and that men were more adept at climbing trees. "Many women across the region died because they stayed behind to look for their children and other relatives," the report found. In Lam Isek village, west of Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia's Aceh province, 182 of 964 residents survived, of whom 47 were female and 132 male. In Sri Lanka, camp surveys suggested a "serious imbalance" in the number of men and women that survived, the Oxfam report said.
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