Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern ...

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The wall of water and debris hit coastal resorts in South East Asian countries including Thailand, Indonesia, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The Boxing Day Tsunami, as it became known, killed more ...

This year, Boxing ... a powerful tsunami that killed 228,000 people in 15 countries, as waves as high as 30 metres slammed into coastal communities across the Indian Ocean. In Thailand, it was ...

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war ... 11,000 in India, 5,000 in Thailand. Peraliya, Sri Lanka. Now, 20 years on, the ABC has returned to some of the hardest-hit communities to ...

A former NSW Police forensic investigator has run nearly 1,400 kilometres to mark 20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami. Peter Baines has raised over $620,000 from the run to help orphaned Thai ...

Twenty years after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami caused unimaginable ... A boy walks past the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Museum in the southern Thai province of Phang Nga. Picture: AFP The PLTD Apung ...

Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years ... with inhabitants of the coastlines of Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka suffering the brunt of the devastation.

The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand. Many remain missing and nearly 400 bodies are unclaimed to this day. Mourners shed tears and comforted each other as they laid ...