Countries across Asia held ceremonies to remember hundreds of thousands of people killed during the massive Indian Ocean ...

Recommended Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years since devastating Boxing Day tsunami The deadly tsunami hit Thailand 20 years ago – trauma will never go away Sri Lanka rescues 102 ‘Rohingya ...

The death toll for Indonesia’s Aceh province is generally ... years earlier in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, brought out the best in the world; when confronted ...

In Indonesia’s Aceh Province, more than 14,000 people were interred in one mass grave. Prabu Deepan, of Tearfund, witnessed the disaster. He is now director of the Asia region for the charity. “The ...

Tearful mourners across Asia have commemorated the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines ...

Generate Key Takeaways A woman who was able to survive the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ... earthquake struck under the sea in northern Indonesia. It claimed the lives of 230,000 ...

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 ...

In the wake of the Boxing ... day. The epicentre of the earthquake that triggered the tsunami, one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history, was just 100 miles off the coast of Indonesia.

MOURNERS wept today as they marked the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami which killed 230,000 ... More than 170,000 people died in Indonesia, where waves were over 100ft high on landfall.

Some 1.7 million people were displaced, mostly in the four worst-affected countries, but Indonesia ... day. Mourners shed tears and comforted each other as they laid flowers at the village’s ...