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Suganee Sam, left, and her daughter Soomatee relax in hammocks at their home in Rig Road, Barrackpore, on Tuesday.

Trinidad family lives in cowshed for a home

(Trinidad Guardian) When a 6.8 mag­ni­tude earth­quake rocked Trinidad & Tobago a year ago, 78-year-old Sug­a­nee Sam and her daugh­ter Soo­ma­tee hud­dled to­geth­er, pray­ing that their home con­struct­ed of rust­ed gal­vanised sheets and dis­card­ed wood would not col­lapse on them.

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