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Asia To Mourn Tsunami Dead

20 years after a devastating tsunami, a survivor celebrates what the disaster has given him

The Asian tsunami that crashed into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, is this century’s deadliest natural disaster so far.

AFP on MSN · 1h

'We couldn't find their bodies': Indonesian tsunami survivors mourn the dead

Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, commemorating the deaths of tens of thousands killed when a tsunami decimated the area two decades ago.

Daily Journal · 11h

Tsunami memorials begin as Asia mourns disaster 20 years on

Emotional ceremonies began across Asia on Thursday to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami devastated coastal areas around the Indian Ocean, in one of

Barron's · 12h

Asia To Mourn Tsunami Dead With Ceremonies 20 Years On

Emotional ceremonies were expected across Asia on Thursday to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami devastated coastal areas around the Indian Ocean, in one of the worst natural disasters in human history.

Boxing Day tsunami - 'I missed death 5 times'

BBC on MSN · 2h

Boxing Day tsunami - 'I missed death five times'

A father who saved his family during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has recalled how he "missed death five times on that day". Duncan Ridgley, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, had emigrated to Sri Lanka with his three children and then wife, arriving in the country on Christmas Eve.

I lost my family in the Boxing Day tsunami, now I run the orphanage that saved me

Hudson Meek, the young actor who appeared in Baby Driver and CBS’s MacGyver reboot, has died. He was 16. Meek was pronounced dead at UAB Hospital in Alabama at around 8pm on Saturday, Dec. 21 after falling from a moving vehicle on Thursday night, according to a published report. “Our hearts are broken to share …

Australian Broadcasting Corpora… · 6m

Program: The scientists who first detected the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami

Boxing Day Tsunami caught much of Asia by surprise, but 14,000 kilometres away these scientists watched on in horror.

18mon MSN

Tsunami remembered by survivors and victim's family

The couple were on holiday with family on Vilamendhoo island in the Maldives, where they noticed the usually still water ...

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20 Years Since the Deadly Tsunami in Asia

The brunt of the tsunami was felt in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where 170,000 people perished. Sri Lanka, India and ...

6hon MSN

Prayers and tears mark 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people

People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the ...

20mon MSN

'My brother was swept away by tsunami 20 years ago'

A man caught up in a devastating tsunami 20 years ago has recalled the final moments before his older brother was swept away ...

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Twenty years on: 'My boat was metres from the shore when 2004 tsunami hit'

Just as we pulled out from the harbour, the boat lurched and suddenly the jetty next to where we had boarded crumpled and ...

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After 20 years, the post-tsunami generation stays vigilant for future disasters

Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...

28mon MSN

'The tsunami wave came in and just took her'

"The wave came in and just took her, it just took her away." On Boxing Day 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggered a ...

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