Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...

But it was Aceh, Indonesia – a province already blighted by decades of civil war – that was hardest hit, particularly the capital Banda Aceh, where waves of up to 20-30m swept through the city ...

People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province to mark 20 years since the ...

On December 26, 2004, a powerful earthquake off the coast of Aceh in Indonesia triggered a series of waves that inundated ...

three-minute siren, grave visits and mass prayers across Aceh on Thursday marked the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami disaster that hit several countries, including Indonesia ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her mother while trying to escape the giant waves.

Much of the news from Aceh then was from Lhokseumawe ... until I lost count and the bodies blurred into the background noise. Most were lying on the side of the street, some covered, others not. Some ...

Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her mother while trying to escape the giant waves.