Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years of devastating Boxing Day tsunami with sombre ceremonies
In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore ...
Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years since devastating Boxing Day tsunami which killed 230,000 across a dozen countries
Indonesia and Thailand are marking 20 years since a tsunami caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people in one of the ...
Families of Boxing Day tsunami victims weep as they mark 20th anniversary of one of the world’s worst natural disasters
MOURNERS wept today as they marked the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami which killed 230,000. They gathered along shores to honour those who died when huge waves triggered by a ...
Prayers and tears mark 20 years since Boxing Day tsunami that claimed 230,000 lives
Even though two decades have passed, survivors are still grieving the loved ones they lost to the giant wave that caused one ...
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Some people on Indonesia’s Simeulue island relied on folklore to escape the 2004 tsunami
The majority of deaths from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were in Indonesia. But the island of Simeulue was largely spared.
Boxing Day 2004 tsunami 20th anniversary: Emotional ceremonies mark disaster
Twenty years after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami caused unimaginable devastation across 14 countries, reminders of that ...
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'I lost my daughter in the Boxing Day Tsunami - I'll never stop searching for her'
In minutes, the calm of a Boxing Day morning was ripped apart, the couple and their baby daughter swept away when their house ...
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Today (Dec. 26) marks the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami
A two-minute silence was observed across Sri Lanka today (December 26) from 9:25 a.m. to 9:27 a.m. to honor the memory ...
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Offerings of milk, flowers, prayers mark 20 years since Boxing Day tsunami
Along Tamil Nadu’s coastline and Sri Lanka's, affected local populations remembered those lost to the South Asian tsunami of ...
‘We had the money and the will to help’: John Howard reflects on $1bn Boxing Day tsunami aid
John Howard knew he had to act quickly to help Indonesia after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami unleashed destruction and terror ...
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Mind-Boggling: The 2004 Sumatra Tsunami
A Boxing Day Surprise: An Earthquake and Tsunami The 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck at 7:59 a.m. Dec. 26, 2004, creating a rupture ... Oceanside cities in Sumatra were the first to be hit ...