After being a bridesmaid at her sister's wedding in Phi Phi in Thailand on 11 December 2004 ... own lucky escape from the tsunami. The couple were on holiday with family on Vilamendhoo island ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

The 2004 tsunami ... Thailand’s worst destruction in 2004, with trawlers swept onto houses and 800 residents killed. Mr Manasak Yuankaew, 48, now head of the village, lost four members of his ...

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP) — The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the ... Dec. 26, 2004, the day the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami struck across South and ...