(AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) People perform a Friday prayer at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) People sit at a coffee shop on the ...

Emotional ceremonies began across Asia on Thursday to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami ...

Buildings by the coast were flattened to the ground except for Rahmatullah Mosque, 500 meters (1,600 feet) from the shore, and about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from Asnani’s house. The photo of the ...

(AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) People perform a Friday prayer at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) People sit at a coffee shop on the ...

People perform a Friday prayer at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. Visitors walks at the Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, Saturday, Dec ...

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.