I don’t wish ever a disaster of this magnitude on anyone,” one woman said. But the 2004 Asian tsunami also made her realize "there’s more to this world, and it’s about love.” ...
The tsunami that rose from this great shifting of tectonic plates reached over 115 feet in some places and ultimately killed about 230,000 people in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, the Maldives ...
With hundreds of thousands dead, a shortage of body bags and 1.7 million people displaced, the overwhelming devastation caused by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami remains forever imprinted on the minds of ...
An Irish survivor of the 2004 south-east Asian tsunami has revealed how her father — who also escaped from the disaster — ...
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". On 26 ...
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She said she was staying at a hotel in Phuket, with her mother and stepfather ... I Was There: The Boxing Day Tsunami The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami is one of the deadliest natural disasters in ...
When the destruction of the Boxing Day tsunami swept across 14 countries killing more than 227,000 people, it prompted an unprecedented global response.
On December 26, 2004, the region was ... an orphanage off Phuket Island that was set up to care for children whose parents had died in the tsunami. He also helped direct funds raised by a Tauranga ...
The 43-year-old mother-of-four was swept to her death after going to buy suncream in the resort of Phuket, while her husband Nigel and their children waited in the car. Mrs Willgrass was one of the ...