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Boxing Day tsunami - 'I missed death 5 times'

Tsunami remembered by survivors and victim's family
The couple were on holiday with family on Vilamendhoo island in the Maldives, where they noticed the usually still water ...
20 Years Since the Deadly Tsunami in Asia
The brunt of the tsunami was felt in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where 170,000 people perished. Sri Lanka, India and ...
Prayers and tears mark 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people
People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the ...
'My brother was swept away by tsunami 20 years ago'
A man caught up in a devastating tsunami 20 years ago has recalled the final moments before his older brother was swept away ...
Twenty years on: 'My boat was metres from the shore when 2004 tsunami hit'
Just as we pulled out from the harbour, the boat lurched and suddenly the jetty next to where we had boarded crumpled and ...
After 20 years, the post-tsunami generation stays vigilant for future disasters
Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...
20 years since the Boxing Day tsunami: How Sri Lanka’s Yala National Park has recovered – and thrived
Two decades after the 2004 tsunami devastated coastal regions around Asia, Tamara Davison travels to one of the areas that ...
Supermodel Petra Nemcova opens up 20 years after surviving deadly tsunami
ABC News’ Diane Sawyer interviewed Nemcova in the months after the tragedy. Now, 20 years after one of the deadliest natural ...
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20 Years On: Honoring the Resilience and Loss of the Indian Ocean Tsunami
On the 20th anniversary of the destructive 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, over 225,000 lives are remembered, including 35,000 in ...
It was white water and chaos - tsunami survivor
He said all he could see was "white water and chaos". "I leapt out of bed to the window to see a great wall of white water, ...