On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably the ...
Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal regions around Asia, Tamara Davison travels to one of the areas that ...
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 ...
TWENTY years after the devastating Boxing Day tsunami which struck south-east Asia, thousands of people gathered on beaches and at sites of mass graves to hold vigils. A powerful 9.1-magnitude ...
A British man has recalled fears the world was ending as the Boxing Day tsunami devastated his home in Thailand 20 years ago. John Metcalfe had only been living there for two-and-a-half years.
On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 9.2 ...
Amber Mason said once Ningnong the elephant realised there was something wrong he "started pulling away" [Amber Owen] A woman who was able to survive the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ...