Ducan Rigley said after the tsunami he did not want to return to Sri ... has recalled how he "missed death five times on that day". Duncan Ridgley, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, had ...

Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster. A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami ...

The Boxing Day Tsunami, as it became known, killed more than 227,000 people, making it the worst natural disaster of the 21st century. Sharon, now 57, recalls how that fateful day derailed her ...

Tearful mourners across Asia have commemorated the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean. On December 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off ...

A woman who was able to survive the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ago unharmed, aged eight, because of an elephant said "it makes you grateful for everything that's happened to you".

People have gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province to mark the 20th anniversary of the massive Indian Ocean tsunami. On Boxing Day in 2004, a powerful 9.1 ...

Tourists trying to escape the tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004. Picture: AFP / STR The devastation was unimaginable. Picture: John Russell ‘You choose how to live’ It took a good six months for ...

Ani Naqvi remembers the Boxing Day tsunami 20 years ago not just as the day when she nearly lost her life but one that gave her new purpose. She had just turned 33 and was visiting a friend in the ...

The head of World Vision Australia has shared his devastating memories of the “profound devastation” caused by the Boxing Day ... mourning,” he said. Indonesia was worst hit by the tsunami ...