Deborah Garlick was travelling with her boyfriend in Khao Lak, Thailand, when a huge tsunami struck 20 years ago, killing about 230,000 people in the biggest natural disaster of the century.

Khao Lak's beaches, about 40 miles north of Phuket island, were among Thailand's worst hit by the tsunami. "Today there’s a monument to the victims, but on the beachfront it's business as usual ...

TSUNAMI survivor Sharon Howard sobs as she ... at the beach resort of Khao Lak where David Page, 44, Mason, eight, and six-year-old Taylor died on Boxing Day 2004. Sharon Howard sobs as she ...

All three died in the resort of Khao Lak when the tsunami struck on 26 December 2004. "It's like a kick in the teeth, these things are worth more than any amount of money," said Ms Howard.

Boxing Day tsunami: Families devastated by the loss of loved ones reflect on disaster Sky's Asia Correspondent Cordelia Lynch has been to Khao Lak in Thailand to see how people are still ...

A former NSW Police forensic investigator has run nearly 1,400 kilometres to mark 20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami ... like the small village of Khao Lak were hit by waves up to 10 metres ...

Desperate survivors search for family members in the devastation of Khao Lak, December 29 ... One of the first photos of the tsunami, an Agence-France Presse picture that had fronted newspapers ...

The sea started boiling. Khao Lak beach the day before the tsunami. Picture: Supplied “It was the day after Christmas and we were excited to go scuba diving,” she said. “We had been at a ...

For tsunami survivors, the sea can represent both ... kill the smell at a temple where some 600 bodies are piled up in Khao Lak, north of the devastated Thai tourist resort island of Phuket ...