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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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20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami: How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived
Over 250 tourists, locals and guides around Yala National Park lost their lives in the Boxing Day tsunami, including many ...
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 ...
'Surviving the Boxing Day tsunami gave me a second chance'
"The tsunami was the catalyst for me finding my purpose, that second chance I got," she said. The 53-year-old has now written ...
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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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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 ...
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Boxing Day tsunami a reminder we are all in harm’s way
Just as Australians had come running to the aid of victims 30 years earlier in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, brought out the best in the world; when confronted with ...
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Boxing Day Tsunami: An elephant took me to safety
A woman who was able to survive the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ago unharmed, aged eight, because of an elephant said "it makes you grateful for everything that's happened to you".
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Boxing Day tsunami remembered, 20 years on
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 ...
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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 ...
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Boxing day tsunami:Unforgettable experience
The first and only tsunami that Sri Lanka experienced was on Boxing Day(26th) of December 2004. My wife and I, as usual, went down to Modara in Moratuwa to purchase our seafood requirements of seafood ...