Journalist Charles Miranda recounts the “harrowing” aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami. Today marks the 20th anniversary since the 9.1 magnitude earthquake killed more than 220,000 civilians ...

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A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by ... who helped tourists such as himself ...

Luke Simon, who survived the devastated 2004 Boxing Day tsunami which killed his brother, has shared the haunting two words ...

AS NATURAL disasters go, the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 was of a scale all its own: an estimated 238,000 people died as coastal towns and villages in the Indian Ocean rim were washed away in an ...

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GRAPHIC CONTENT: Chief Herald photographer Nick Moir flew into Banda Aceh the day after the Boxing Day tsunami. He found a city turned upside down, bodies lying in the streets – and a sense of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Twenty years ago today, the rising and falling floor of the Indian Ocean sent tsunamis pouring over highly vulnerable coastal ...