Boxing Day tsunami - 'I missed death 5 times'

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 …
Boxing Day tsunami - 'I missed death five times'
Duncan Ridgley says "it was like going through five Viking battles in a day".
What happened to the Boxing Day tsunami babies 20 years on
The 2004 disaster hit the Indian Ocean coastline leaving thousands of children without parents. Here, former travel agent Lynn Stanier explains how after volunteering she vowed to never stop helping t
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 under the sea in northern Indonesia. It claimed the lives of 230,000 people, but she taken to safety by elephant, Ningnong who she was riding at the time the first wave hit.
Prayers and tears mark 20 years since Boxing Day tsunami that claimed 230,000 lives
Even though two decades have passed, survivors are still grieving the loved ones they lost to the giant wave that caused one of modern history's worst natural disasters.
How DEC's response to Boxing Day Tsunami remains a help 20 years on
Boxing Day 2004 produced one of the most devastating disasters the world has seen when a massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean hit Asia.
Today (Dec. 26) marks the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami
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
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.
'We didn't know the meaning of the word "tsunami" until Boxing Day 2004'
Dr Mahesh Gunasekara was working as director of the 200-bed Kanthale Hospital and looking forward to starting a new job with the charity in early 2005. He said: “Until it happened, we never knew the meaning of the word ‘tsunami’. For us, it was just a Japanese word.”
‘Pain of memories’: Anthony Albanese commemorates Boxing Day tsunami
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has released a video message commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami.
Program: 20 years on from the Boxing Day Tsunami
While it's a time of celebration for much of the world, today marks a sombre milestone for the tens of thousands of people impacted by one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. Twenty years ago today,
Boxing Day tsunami: here’s what we have learned in the 20 years since the deadliest natural disaster in modern history
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...
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 ...
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Boxing Day 2004 tsunami 20th anniversary: Emotional ceremonies mark disaster
Don't miss out on the headlines from World. Followed categories will be added to My News. Twenty years after the 2004 ...
20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami: How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived
Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal regions around Asia, Tamara Davison travels to one of the areas that ...
Boxing Day tsunami 20 years on: Veteran aid worker remembers the horror - and the human resilience
Alex Snary, a veteran aid worker, witnessed the devastation of the Boxing Day tsunami, which killed at least 250,000 people ...
‘It was white water and chaos’, recalls Boxing Day tsunami survivor 20 years on
Daniel Poole was travelling in Sri Lanka when he was hit by the tsunami, whilst Rachel Harvey witnessed the devastation in ...