Boxing Day tsunami - 'I missed death 5 times'

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It was white water and chaos - tsunami survivor
He said all he could see was "white water and chaos". "I leapt out of bed to the window to see a great wall of white water, ...
Prayers and tears mark 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people
People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the ...
Twenty years on: 'My boat was metres from the shore when 2004 tsunami hit'
Just as we pulled out from the harbour, the boat lurched and suddenly the jetty next to where we had boarded crumpled and ...
Supermodel Petra Nemcova opens up 20 years after surviving deadly tsunami
ABC News’ Diane Sawyer interviewed Nemcova in the months after the tragedy. Now, 20 years after one of the deadliest natural ...
After 20 years, the post-tsunami generation stays vigilant for future disasters
Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...
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20 Years On: Honoring the Resilience and Loss of the Indian Ocean Tsunami
On the 20th anniversary of the destructive 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, over 225,000 lives are remembered, including 35,000 in ...
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 ...
The Deadliest Tsunami Set Off Work to Be Ready for the Next Big Wave
Experts said they were “blind” to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without tsunami deaths is a challenge.
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Tamil Nadu Remembers: 20 Years After the 2004 Tsunami
Tamil Nadu commemorates the victims of the devastating 2004 tsunami, as Governor RN Ravi and local fishermen pay tribute on ...