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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 was the deadliest natural disaster this century, and was probably 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 ...
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 ...
Boxing Day Tsunami: An elephant took me to safety
On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck ...
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'Surviving the Boxing Day tsunami gave me a second chance'
Ani Naqvi (left) was visiting the coastal town of Arugam Bay when the tsunami struck Ani Naqvi remembers the Boxing Day tsunami 20 years ago not just as the day when she nearly lost her life but ...
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'Boxing Day Tsunami 20 years ago today saw me lose my two sons and fiancé in an instant'
A woman who got engaged on Christmas Day in 2004, saw her world fall apart less than 24 hours later as her new fiance and two young sons were swept away in the Boxing Day Tsunami. Twenty years on ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Families of Boxing Day tsunami victims weep as they mark 20th anniversary of one of the world’s worst natural disasters
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 ...
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Boxing Day Tsunami: An elephant took me to safety
Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways A woman who was able to survive the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ago unharmed, aged eight, because of an ...
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'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 ...