Across south-east Asia, people marked the 20th anniversary on Boxing Day, gathering in prayer at mass-grave sites, in which ...

The disaster, which became known as the Boxing Day Tsunami, took the lives of 227,898 ... India, who is from Reading, told how the family were in Sri Lanka at the time the disaster struck.

Twenty years after the Boxing Day tsunami, Sri Lanka’s coastal areas are still healing from the waves that came crashing in on December 26, 2004. While communities have been rebuilding lives and ...

Ani Naqvi (left) was visiting the coastal town of Arugam Bay when the tsunami struck Ani Naqvi remembers the Boxing Day ... the Sri Lankan surfing village of Arugam Bay on 26 December 2004 when ...

# To live daily in perpetual fear of the deadly consequences of something that may or may not happen and, anyway, may not affect one individually, is impossible if people are to remain sufficiently ...

The extreme weather phenomenon coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami which struck India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Indonesia, among other nations, in 2004 ...

Two families, one in Koralawella, Moratuwa, the other in Kirullapone leading routine lives………and then the swipe of monstrous waves from a sea looked at as benevolent until then. Destiny, karma, fate ...