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Outlook: 01/02/2010

01/02/2010

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Traumatised children in Gaza; DIY station in India; Gustave the bullet-proof croc.

Helping traumatised children in Gaza; the DIY railway station in India; Gustave the bullet-proof crocodile.

Children in Gaza
After the Israeli attack on Gaza last year, large areas of the Gaza Strip were reduced to rubble, leaving thousands homeless. Children are among the worst affected. Osama Damo, an aid worker with Save The Children, tells Outlook's Lucy Ash about his work helping children traumatised by what they saw in the war.

The DIY train station
Villagers in the northern Indian state of Haryana have built their own railway station. The local community at Tajnagar village near Delhi raised around fifty thousand dollars to build the facility. Outlook reporter Suhail Haleem went to admire the newly-built station and meet some of the people behind it. 

Gustave the bullet-proof crocodile
Gustave is a giant reptile reputed to have eaten over 200 people on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Burundi for the last twenty years.  Now Frenchman and Burundi resident, Patrice Faye, has become a local hero for trying to capture him.  Patrice told Matthew Bannister about his ongoing battle of wits with Gustave who has so far eluded capture.

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