In Khao Lak, in the south of Thailand ... "But I didn't know what a tsunami was. The more I moved, the more the wave went against me. It was so strong." His boat capsized. But miraculously ...

Deborah Garlick was travelling with her boyfriend in Khao Lak, Thailand, when a huge tsunami struck 20 years ago, killing about 230,000 people in the biggest natural disaster of the century.

The sea started boiling. Khao Lak beach the day before the tsunami. Picture: Supplied “It was the day after Christmas and we were excited to go scuba diving,” she said. “We had been at a ...

Boxing Day tsunami, forensic investigator Peter Baines wanted to create good from the enormity of loss. Twenty years on, he has raised $30 million for children orphaned by the disaster.

Khao Lak, Thailand, Dec 25 (EFE).- Two decades after the devastating 2004 tsunami, thousands of tourists returned to Thailand’s Andaman Sea coast to celebrate Christmas on Wednesday. The ...

TSUNAMI survivor Sharon Howard sobs as she ... at the beach resort of Khao Lak where David Page, 44, Mason, eight, and six-year-old Taylor died on Boxing Day 2004. Sharon Howard sobs as she ...

Khao Lak's beaches, about 40 miles north of Phuket island, were among Thailand's worst hit by the tsunami. "Today there’s a monument to the victims, but on the beachfront it's business as usual ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, Nemcova and Atlee were staying in Khao Lak, Thailand – preparing to end their trip when the tsunami hit. Speaking of depending on a palm tree for her survival, Nemcova said ...

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 ...

Every inch of the hospital was flooded with disorientated survivors, but Watana Sittirachot’s uncle was nowhere to be found. For three days, the then 12-year-old roamed the chaotic corridors ...