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Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern ...

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".

The wall of water and debris hit coastal resorts in South East Asian countries including Thailand, Indonesia, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The Boxing Day Tsunami, as it became known, killed more ...

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 ...

A British man has recalled fears the world was ending as the Boxing Day tsunami devastated his home in Thailand 20 years ago. John Metcalfe had only been living there for two-and-a-half years.

but he will never forget what confronted him when he first arrived in Thailand to help identify victims of the Boxing Day tsunami. "I stepped into a temple at a place called Wat Yan Yao where ...

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war ... 11,000 in India, 5,000 in Thailand. Peraliya, Sri Lanka. Now, 20 years on, the ABC has returned to some of the hardest-hit communities to ...

Twenty years after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami caused unimaginable ... as well as dozens in Malaysia and Myanmar. Phuket, Thailand in the days after the tsunami compared to today.

The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand. Many remain missing and nearly 400 bodies are unclaimed to this day. Mourners shed tears and comforted each other as they laid ...