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Boxing Day tsunami, forensic investigator Peter Baines wanted to create good from the enormity of loss. Twenty years on, he has raised $30 million for children orphaned by the disaster.

Luke Simon, who survived the devastated 2004 Boxing Day tsunami which killed his brother, has shared the haunting two words ...

Amber Mason said once Ningnong the elephant realised there was something wrong he "started pulling away" [Amber Owen] A woman who was able to survive the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ...

This year, Boxing ... a powerful tsunami that killed 228,000 people in 15 countries, as waves as high as 30 metres slammed into coastal communities across the Indian Ocean. In Thailand, it was ...

Survivors and relatives of victims of the Boxing Day Tsunami held memorials in Thailand to mark the disaster’s 20th ...

The wall of water and debris hit coastal resorts in South East Asian countries including Thailand, Indonesia, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The Boxing Day Tsunami, as it became known, killed more ...

Thousands of mourners descended on beaches throughout Southeast Asia today to lay candles at memorial sites marking 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean Boxing Day tsunami, one of modern ...

The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war ... 11,000 in India, 5,000 in Thailand. Peraliya, Sri Lanka. Now, 20 years on, the ABC has returned to some of the hardest-hit communities to ...

MOURNERS wept today as they marked the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami which killed 230,000 ... Parts of India, Sri Lanka and Thailand were also devastated and more than 1.7million ...

The official global figure of those killed in the tsunami, including in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and the Maldives ... of Cyclone Tracy, the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, brought out the best in ...