+ Lucy Elizabeth Holland (1989-2004)

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Dec 29, 2004, 6:18:04 AM12/29/04
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Lucy Elizabeth Holland, who has died in the Asian tsunami disaster,
aged 14, was the younger daughter of Michael Holland by his wife the
Hon. Jane Mary Attenborough (b. 1955), daughter of the Baron
Attenborough, CBE, the life peer, and Baroness Attenborough.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=645717

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international

Attenborough's daughter is among the missing.

Here's a Reuters report:-

Actor and film director Richard Attenborough's 14-year-old
granddaughter has died in the Asian tsunami disaster and his daughter
and her mother-in-law are missing, a family friend says.
The family party was staying in Phuket, the island resort on the
south-western Thai coast devastated by Sunday's giant waves.

A statement from Diana Hawkins, a colleague and family friend, said
Attenborough's granddaughter Lucy died at the scene.

"Lord (Richard) Attenborough and his wife, Sheila, have lost three
members of their immediate family in the tidal wave disaster that hit
the beaches of Thailand on Boxing Day morning.

"Their elder daughter, Jane, is missing, as is her mother-in-law, Jane
Holland."

Richard Attenborough appeared in "Jurassic Park" as the crazed creator
of the dinosaur fantasy land. He also starred as the chilling villain
"Pinkie" in screen classic "Brighton Rock".

His many directing credits include the Oscar-winning epic "Gandhi" and
the South African apartheid era work "Cry Freedom".

Miles of tsunami-shattered beach hotels on the Thai mainland north of
Phuket island have begun yielding up their dead with at least 770
corpses, Thais and foreign tourists, recovered in the area around Khao
Lak beach.

Thailand's official death toll stands at 1,538 with 1,400 missing, many
of them Thais working in the tourist trade.

Nearly 60,000 people are now believed to have been killed around the
Indian Ocean by the tsunami, triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake
off the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

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