Boxing Day Tsunami: An elephant took me to safety
On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck ...
'I thought the world was ending during Boxing Day tsunami - I don't know how I survived'
John Metcalfe, a Liverpool man living in Thailand, survived the Boxing Day Tsunami 20 years ago, enduring harrowing injuries ...
'Boxing Day Tsunami 20 years ago today saw me lose my two sons and fiancé in an instant'
Sharon Howard has returned to Thailand to mark the 20th anniversary of losing her six-year-old son Taylor, his eight-year-old ...
Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years of devastating Boxing Day tsunami with sombre ceremonies
In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore ...
Man who survived tragic Boxing Day tsunami shares haunting two words he heard moments before
Luke Simon, who survived the devastated 2004 Boxing Day tsunami which killed his brother, has shared the haunting two words ...
I lost two sons & fiancé in Boxing Day tsunami – it destroyed my life – but I had to go back there for 20th anniversary
TSUNAMI survivor Sharon Howard sobs as she lays flowers at the Thailand hotel where she last saw her fiance and two sons 20 ...
Former forensic investigator runs 1,400km to support Boxing Day tsunami victims
Boxing Day tsunami, forensic investigator Peter Baines wanted to create good from the enormity of loss. Twenty years on, he ...
‘There was nothing but death and debris’ – The Boxing Day tsunami 20 years on
20 years later, one of the Matara train’s carriages sits outside the city’s Tsunami Museum as a haunting reminder of Boxing ...
'I saw everything was destroyed': Memories still incredibly raw 20 years after Boxing Day tsunami
Khao Lak was the worst-hit area in Thailand. Many of the dead were tourists enjoying a pristine stretch of beach with azure ...
Remembering the Boxing Day tsunami
This Boxing Day marks the 20th anniversary of the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disaste ...
Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand: The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami 20 years on
The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war, triggered the worst rail accident in history and shattered the lives of ...
Families of Boxing Day tsunami victims weep as they mark 20th anniversary of one of the world’s worst natural disasters
MOURNERS wept today as they marked the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami which killed 230,000. They gathered along shores to honour those who died when huge waves triggered by a ...