El "bebé 81"

In Sri Lanka, DNA tests have confirmed a couple's claim that a four month old baby who survived December's tsunami is their child. This report from Gina Wilkinson:

A judge in the eastern town of Kalmunai says DNA tests have shown that a local couple are the biological parents of the boy known as Baby Eighty-One. The couple have always insisted the baby was their son and the family had been separated when towering waves smashed into their impoverished fishing village in December. Their neighbour later rescued Baby Eighty-One from under a heap of garbage.

But local child protection officials asked the Kalmunai court to order DNA tests before the baby was released from hospital. The officials argued that hundreds of parents were still searching for children missing after the tsunami battered Sri Lanka, leaving more than one thousand children orphaned.

The boy was even placed under police guard after his distraught parents tried to seize him from the medical facility. It's unclear when the baby will be handed over to the couple. But the judge has asked the parents to attend court later this week. The boy was dubbed Baby Eighty-One because he was the eighty-first patient admitted to Kalmunai hospital on the twenty-sixth of December. More than thirty thousand Sri Lankans died when the tsunami swamped two thirds of the island's coast.

Gina Wilkinson, BBC News, Colombo

towering
muy altas

impoverished
pobres

a heap of garbage
un montón de basura

battered
maltrecho

placed under
puesto bajo la custodia

distraught
turbado por la emoción

handed over
entregado a

dubbed
apodado

admitted
ingresó al hospital para recibir cuidados médicos

swamped
inundado, cubierto de agua