Boxing Day tsunami marks 20th anniversary

'Surviving the Boxing Day tsunami gave me a second chance'
Ani Naqvi remembers the Boxing Day tsunami 20 years ago not just as the day when she nearly lost her life but one that gave her new purpose. She had just turned 33 and was visiting a friend in the Sri Lankan surfing village of Arugam Bay on 26 December 2004 when one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the coast of Indonesia,
'I thought the world was ending during Boxing Day tsunami - I don't know how I survived'
John Metcalfe, a Liverpool man living in Thailand, survived the Boxing Day Tsunami 20 years ago, enduring harrowing injuries and a fight for life against overwhelming odds with the help of his dad
Tearful mourners mark 20th anniversary of Boxing Day tsunami
Tearful mourners across Asia have commemorated the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean.
Boxing Day tsunami - 'I missed death five times'
Duncan Ridgley says "it was like going through five Viking battles in a day".
'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 brother Mason and fiancé, David Page, 44
‘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 Day of 2004. The effects of the 9.3 Richter scale earthquake did not relent until eight hours later, when unaware swimmers off the coast of South Africa felt the force of the waves.
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 the brunt of the devastating wave in the country. The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand. Many remain missing and nearly 400 bodies are unclaimed to this day.
'I saw everything was destroyed': Memories still incredibly raw 20 years after Boxing Day tsunami
Khao Lak was the worst-hit area in Thailand. Many of the dead were tourists enjoying a pristine stretch of beach with azure waters. They had to rebuild vast swathes of it - hotels and houses now placed further back from the shoreline.
Frenchwoman’s 20 years of helping Thai school after daughter died in Boxing Day tsunami
Elisabeth Zana thought her life was over after her daughter died in the 2004 tsunami. Instead she began helping a Thai school. She still is.
Victims and survivors of Boxing Day tsunami remembered 20 years on
A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami which killed more than 200,000 people. The Prime Minister was among those paying tribute, saying his thoughts are with the “millions of people who were affected”.
Boxing day tsunami survivors and relatives of victims join 20 year memorial
Survivors of the Boxing Day Tsunami and relatives of those who were killed joined memorials in Thailand today on the 20th anniversary of the disaster. Footage shows families laying flowers in Phuket and Phang Nga provinces on the east coast of the country,
Woman who lost fiancé and two sons in Boxing Day tsunami speaks out on devastating moment disaster struck
A woman who survived a tsunami shared the devastation of the impact of the waves. It has been 20 years since the Boxing Day ...
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Boxing Day earthquake, which killed about 250K, serves as a remainder to be ready
Boxing Day, marks the 20th year since one of the world's most significant natural disasters, the Sumatra earthquake.
Incredible tale of ‘miracle boy’ who survived on puddle water in swamp for 21 days after Boxing Day tsunami 20yrs ago
A YOUNG boy spent nearly a month living off puddle water after the devastating Boxing Day tsunami. Hero Ian Dovaston told The ...
20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami: How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived
Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal regions around Asia, Tamara Davison travels to one of the areas that ...
20 Years After The Indian Ocean Tsunami
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Prayers and tears mark 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people
Many openly wept at the mass grave in Ulee Lheue village, where more than 14,000 unidentified and unclaimed tsunami victims ...