The majority of deaths from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were in Indonesia. But the island of Simeulue was largely spared.
In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore ...
Across south-east Asia, people marked the 20th anniversary on Boxing Day, gathering in prayer at mass-grave sites, in which ...
Sharon Howard has returned to Thailand to mark the 20th anniversary of losing her six-year-old son Taylor, his eight-year-old ...
The aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia (ShelterBox) Ms Harvey, who also joined ShelterBox as a ...
Even though two decades have passed, survivors are still grieving the loved ones they lost to the giant wave that caused one ...
A tsunami warning system was built after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami catastrophe but can we ever be thoroughly prepared for ...
The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war, triggered the worst rail accident in history and shattered the lives of ...
Victims of one of world’s worst natural disasters, which killed 220,000 people from Indonesia to Somalia, commemorated two ...
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 ...
Some 1.7 million people were displaced, mostly in the four worst-affected countries, but Indonesia recorded the most deaths at over 170,000. open image in gallery India women offer tributes in ...