Deborah Garlick was travelling with her boyfriend in Khao Lak, Thailand, when a huge tsunami struck 20 years ago, killing about 230,000 people in the biggest natural disaster of the century.

TSUNAMI survivor Sharon Howard sobs as she ... at the beach resort of Khao Lak where David Page, 44, Mason, eight, and six-year-old Taylor died on Boxing Day 2004. Sharon Howard sobs as she ...

Khao Lak's beaches, about 40 miles north of Phuket island, were among Thailand's worst hit by the tsunami. "Today there’s a monument to the victims, but on the beachfront it's business as usual ...

For tsunami survivors, the sea can represent both ... kill the smell at a temple where some 600 bodies are piled up in Khao Lak, north of the devastated Thai tourist resort island of Phuket ...

The sea started boiling. Khao Lak beach the day before the tsunami. Picture: Supplied “It was the day after Christmas and we were excited to go scuba diving,” she said. “We had been at a ...

Every inch of the hospital was flooded with disorientated survivors, but Watana Sittirachot’s uncle was nowhere to be found. For three days, the then 12-year-old roamed the chaotic corridors ...

Desperate survivors search for family members in the devastation of Khao Lak, December 29 ... One of the first photos of the tsunami, an Agence-France Presse picture that had fronted newspapers ...

Brownless knew he had to help. Five days after the tsunami struck, Brownless arrived in Thailand. He made his way to Takua Pa, a town inland from Khao Lak, where the bodies of the deceased were ...

which was returned to her parents after her death Deborah Garlick was travelling with her boyfriend in Khao Lak, Thailand, when a huge tsunami struck 20 years ago, killing about 228,000 people in ...