Boxing Day Tsunami: An elephant took me to safety
On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck ...
Man who lost brother in tragic Boxing Day tsunami that killed 227,000 people speaks out on escaping horrific disaster
Luke Simon lost his brother, Piers, in the tsunami disaster in Thailand and has since spoken out on the anniversary of the ...
'I thought the world was ending during Boxing Day tsunami - I don't know how I survived'
John Metcalfe, a Liverpool man living in Thailand, survived the Boxing Day Tsunami 20 years ago, enduring harrowing injuries ...
Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years of devastating Boxing Day tsunami with sombre ceremonies
In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore ...
‘There was nothing but death and debris’ – The Boxing Day tsunami 20 years on
20 years later, one of the Matara train’s carriages sits outside the city’s Tsunami Museum as a haunting reminder of Boxing ...
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I lost my family in the Boxing Day tsunami, now I run the orphanage that saved me
This year, Boxing ... a powerful tsunami that killed 228,000 people in 15 countries, as waves as high as 30 metres slammed into coastal communities across the Indian Ocean. In Thailand, it was ...
Frenchwoman’s 20 years of helping Thai school after daughter died in Boxing Day tsunami
Elisabeth Zana thought her life was over after her daughter died in the 2004 tsunami. Instead she began helping a Thai school ...
Memorial services mark 20 years since devastating Boxing Day tsunami claimed 230,000 lives
Indonesia and Thailand are marking 20 years since a tsunami caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people in one of the ...
20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami: How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived
How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived - Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal ...
The Sun13d
Families of Boxing Day tsunami victims weep as they mark 20th anniversary of one of the world’s worst natural disasters
MOURNERS wept today as they marked the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami which killed 230,000 ... Parts of India, Sri Lanka and Thailand were also devastated and more than 1.7million ...
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Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years of devastating Boxing Day tsunami with sombre ceremonies
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Boxing Day Tsunami: An elephant took me to safety
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".