Boxing Day tsunami - 'I missed death 5 times'

Boxing Day tsunami - 'I missed death five times'
An inmate facing 11 felony charges at the Robert Presley Detention Center was pronounced dead in his cell, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office announced on Monday. An inmate locator search showed that the deceased, who officials identified as 39-year-old Anthony Wayne Brooks of Riverside, faced 5 felony counts of lewd acts on a child under […]
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 under the sea in northern Indonesia. It claimed the lives of 230,000 people, but she taken to safety by elephant, Ningnong who she was riding at the time the first wave hit.
Boxing Day tsunami a reminder we are all in harm’s way
A tsunami warning system was built after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami catastrophe but can we ever be thoroughly prepared for such a disaster?
‘I thought the world was ending’ as Boxing Day Tsunami washed Merseyside man away
John Metcalfe had been living in Thailand for two-and-a-half years when the devastating natural disaster hit 20 years ago
Program: Surviving the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami
Around a quarter of a million people are estimated to have died in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, more than half of them from Aceh province in Indonesia. One-thousand kilometres of coastline around the province were smashed by the wave,
'We came together': Boxing Day tsunami 20 years on
December 26 marks 20 years since a monster earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people including 26 Australians.
‘Pain of memories’: Anthony Albanese commemorates Boxing Day tsunami
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has released a video message commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami.
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 ...
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 ...
Boxing Day tsunami: here’s what we have learned in the 20 years since the deadliest natural disaster in modern history
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...
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 ...
Frenchwoman’s 20 years of helping Thai school after daughter died in Boxing Day tsunami
Elisabeth Zana thought her life was over after her daughter died in the 2004 tsunami. Instead she began helping a Thai school ...
Nine-year-old Intan was swept away in the Boxing Day tsunami. She clung to a dead body to stay alive
A tsunami hit her city, Banda Aceh, in Indonesia after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake about 250km away.  The US National Oceanic ...
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Boxing Day 2004 tsunami 20th anniversary: Emotional ceremonies mark disaster
Don't miss out on the headlines from World. Followed categories will be added to My News. Twenty years after the 2004 ...
Boxing Day tsunami 20 years on: Veteran aid worker remembers the horror - and the human resilience
Alex Snary, a veteran aid worker, witnessed the devastation of the Boxing Day tsunami, which killed at least 250,000 people ...