At 07.59am local time on Boxing Day 2004, a major earthquake off the Western Coast of ... where 300 people died. In Kenya, an early tsunami alert issued by the authorities and the Red Cross helped ...
Prabu Deepan, of Tearfund, witnessed the disaster. He is now director of the Asia region for the charity. “The 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami unleashed catastrophic destruction on my home country, Sri Lanka, ...
THE 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami is one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. The waves devastated 14 countries with the death toll estimated to be over 227,000. It was triggered on December ...
A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by "screaming and shouting" – two decades on from one of the deadliest disasters ever recorded. Daniel Poole, from ...
Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster. A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami ...