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saw her world fall apart less than 24 hours later as her new fiance and two young sons were swept away in the Boxing Day Tsunami. Twenty years on, Sharon Howard has returned to Thailand to mark ...

Recommended Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years since devastating Boxing Day tsunami The deadly tsunami hit Thailand 20 years ago – trauma will never go away Sri Lanka rescues 102 ‘Rohingya ...

After the deadliest tsunami in history claimed ... in a dozen countries worldwide. In Thailand, more than 5,000 people were killed by the Boxing Day disaster according to the official toll ...

The Boxing Day ... The tsunami carried the energy equivalent of 23,000 atomic bombs. There were 170,000 people dead in Indonesia, 30,000 in Sri Lanka, 11,000 in India, 5,000 in Thailand.

Twenty years after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami caused ... the boat now serves as a tsunami-themed museum. Similarly, a boat that washed ashore in the southern Thai province of Phang Nga has ...

This year, Boxing ... day in 2004. “There’s a saying in Thai that says, ‘the sky after the rain is always clear’,” he said, as a group of three-year-olds clambered over him. “The ...

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 ...

Countries across Asia held ceremonies to remember hundreds of thousands of people killed during the massive Indian Ocean tsunami two decades ago. People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves ...