FIRST RESPONSE: Police Commissioner Mike Bush (second from right), pictured at Wat Yan Yao Mortuary, was the first New Zealand police officer to respond to the disaster.Ten One / None Ten years ...

The Boxing Day Tsunami saw huge 100ft high waves triggered by a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean. The water devastated South East Asia wiping out towns and villages in Sri Lanka, Thailand ...

When the destruction of the Boxing Day tsunami swept across 14 countries killing more than 227,000 people, it prompted an unprecedented global response.

The first and only tsunami that Sri Lanka experienced was on Boxing Day (26th) of December 2004. My wife and I, as usual, went down to Modara in Moratuwa to purchase our seafood requirements of ...

Picture: AFP Boxing Day tsunami Just before 8am on December 26, 2004, a massive 9.3 scale earthquake struck off the west coast of Sumatra in northern Indonesia.

Boxing Day tsunami 20 years on: The North East tourists caught up in ocean disaster More than 200,000 lives were claimed when powerful earthquake triggered a huge tsunami tidal wave on Boxing Day 2004 ...

More than 200,000 lives were claimed when powerful earthquake triggered a huge tsunami tidal wave on Boxing Day 2004 News By Sophie Doughty Crime Reporter 16:44, 26 DEC 2024 The aftermath of the ...

A woman who survived a tsunami shared the devastation of the impact of the waves. It has been 20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami which killed of more than 227,000 people on 26 December 2004.

A woman who survived a tsunami has opened up about its impact 20 years on. The Boxing Day tsunami which took the lives of more than 227,000 people on 26 December 2004 is a disaster that will never ...

A day of celebration turned into a day of death and heartbreak after a huge underwater earthquake set off the deadly tsunami. At 00.59am GMT on December 26, 2004, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake struck ...

A woman who got engaged on Christmas Day in 2004, saw her world fall apart less than 24 hours later as her new fiance and two young sons were swept away in the Boxing Day Tsunami. Twenty years on ...