Boxing Day tsunami: here’s what we have learned in the 20 years since the deadliest natural disaster in modern history
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...
I lost my family in the Boxing Day tsunami, now I run the orphanage that saved me
Hudson Meek, the young actor who appeared in Baby Driver and CBS’s MacGyver reboot, has died. He was 16. Meek was pronounced ...
Man who survived tragic Boxing Day tsunami shares haunting two words he heard moments before
Luke Simon, who survived the devastated 2004 Boxing Day tsunami which killed his brother, has shared the haunting two words ...
‘It was white water and chaos’, recalls Boxing Day tsunami survivor 20 years on
Daniel Poole was travelling in Sri Lanka when he was hit by the tsunami, whilst Rachel Harvey witnessed the devastation in ...
Man who lost brother in tragic Boxing Day tsunami that killed 227,000 people speaks out on escaping horrific disaster
Luke Simon lost his brother, Piers, in the tsunami disaster in Thailand and has since spoken out on the anniversary of the ...
'Surviving the Boxing Day tsunami changed my life'
She was on a diving holiday with her partner in the Sri Lankan coastal town of Hikkaduwa on Boxing Day 2004 when the country ...
'Boxing Day Tsunami 20 years ago today saw me lose my two sons and fiancé in an instant'
Sharon Howard has returned to Thailand to mark the 20th anniversary of losing her six-year-old son Taylor, his eight-year-old ...
'Surviving the Boxing Day tsunami gave me a second chance'
"The tsunami was the catalyst for me finding my purpose, that second chance I got," she said. The 53-year-old has now written ...
‘There was nothing but death and debris’ – The Boxing Day tsunami 20 years on
20 years later, one of the Matara train’s carriages sits outside the city’s Tsunami Museum as a haunting reminder of Boxing ...
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What we have learned in the 20 years since Boxing Day tsunami
Tsunami and earthquake data still isn’t shared widely around the world. Local authorities and experts often don’t communicate ...
Former forensic investigator runs 1,400km to support Boxing Day tsunami victims
Boxing Day tsunami, forensic investigator Peter Baines wanted to create good from the enormity of loss. Twenty years on, he ...
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'Surviving the Boxing Day tsunami gave me a second chance'
Ani Naqvi (left) was visiting the coastal town of Arugam Bay when the tsunami struck Ani Naqvi remembers the Boxing Day tsunami 20 years ago not just as the day when she nearly lost her life but ...