Survivors Tell Tales of Horror
The Citizen|December 27, 2024
Remembrance: Tears Flow for Tsunami Victims
Survivors Tell Tales of Horror

Tearful mourners prayed yesterday as ceremonies were held across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who were killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean in one of the world's worst natural disasters.

A 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's western tip on 26 December 2004 generated a series of waves as high as 30 meters that pummeled the coastline of 14 countries from Indonesia to Somalia.

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