Family found safe in jungle

They were missing, feared dead. But after days out of contact, a British family has emerged from the Sri Lankan jungle.

As the number of British tourists unaccounted for continues to fall, remarkable new details have emerged to prove that the hunt for the missing need not always have an unhappy ending.

Martin and Vicky Markwell from Porthcawl, South Wales, and their son, Jai, five, were on holiday in the west coast resort of Hikkaduwa.

The boy was surfing when the tsunami struck and was later found at a Buddhist temple.

His mother suffered a head injury and fled inland with her husband, shocked and disorientated

They stayed for the next five days with local trader Dudley Senevirthana in his bungalow at the edge of the jungle. British diplomats launched a search mission and the Markwells were eventually found on the day they were able to telephone home for the first time.