Countries across Asia held ceremonies to remember hundreds of thousands of people killed during the massive Indian Ocean ...
On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck ...
"The tsunami was the catalyst for me finding my purpose, that second chance I got," she said. The 53-year-old has now written ...
Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster. A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami which ...
A YOUNG boy spent nearly a month living off puddle water after the devastating Boxing Day tsunami. Hero Ian Dovaston told The Sun how he managed to save seven-year-old Martunis 20 years ago after ...
A two-minute silence was observed across Sri Lanka today (December 26) from 9:25 a.m. to 9:27 a.m. to honor the memory ...
The last I saw of that room was the roof dropping down on us before we were washed out through the rear wall of the building' ...
which killed 220,000 people from Indonesia to Somalia, commemorated two decades on Tearful mourners across Asia have commemorated the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit ...
This year, Boxing Day marks two ... struck off the coast of Indonesia. Registering as high as 9.3 on the Richter scale, the massive earthquake unleashed a powerful tsunami that killed 228,000 ...
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 ...
Across south-east Asia, people marked the 20th anniversary on Boxing Day, gathering in prayer at mass-grave sites, in which ...
People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia ... tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand. Many remain missing and nearly 400 bodies are unclaimed to this day.