The Boxing Day Tsunami, as it became known, killed more than 227,000 people, making it the worst natural disaster of the 21st century. Sharon, now 57, recalls how that fateful day derailed her ...
Ani Naqvi remembers the Boxing Day tsunami 20 years ago not just as the day when she nearly lost her life but one that gave her new purpose. She had just turned 33 and was visiting a friend in the ...
Ani was among the first people to be struck by the Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami twenty years ago when a series of huge waves triggered by an earthquake killed more than 230,000 people across 14 ...
TWENTY years after the devastating Boxing Day tsunami which struck south-east Asia, thousands of people gathered on beaches and at sites of mass graves to hold vigils. A powerful 9.1-magnitude ...
Tourists trying to escape the tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004. Picture: AFP / STR The devastation was unimaginable. Picture: John Russell ‘You choose how to live’ It took a good six months for ...
People have gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province to mark the 20th anniversary of the massive Indian Ocean tsunami. On Boxing Day in 2004, a powerful 9.1 ...