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 ...

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

At 07.59am local time on Boxing Day 2004, a major earthquake off the Western Coast ... The huge waves caused by the underwater earthquake devastated much of Thailand’s 400km western coastline, while ...

Dave explained how he heard there were deaths in Thailand on Boxing Day morning and rang his son but there was no answer. Dave, now 65, said: "I heard about [the tsunami] as we were coming into ...

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.

It was December 28, 2004, and I had been in Thailand less than 12 hours with photographer Michael Perini, sent by News Corp Australia’s Sunday newspapers to cover the Boxing Day tsunami.

This Boxing Day will be quiet for John May as he looks ... Richard de Gottal, from Worthing, said surviving the tsunami in Thailand had left him with an inexplicable bond to the country.

In Indonesia’s Aceh province, where more than 100,000 people were killed, a siren rang out at the Baiturrahman Grand Mosque to begin a series of memorials around the region including in Sri Lanka, ...