TSUNAMI survivor Sharon Howard sobs as she lays flowers at the Thailand hotel where she last saw her fiance and two sons 20 years ago to the day. While families around the country gather for ...
She didn't know at the time that the tsunami had hit a dozen countries ... Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. Along Thailand’s Andaman coast, at least 5,400 people were killed and some 3,000 ...
A woman who was able to survive the Boxing Day tsunami in Thailand 20 years ago unharmed ... She said she was staying at a hotel in Phuket, with her mother and stepfather, over the festive ...
Richard de Gottal, from Worthing, said surviving the tsunami in Thailand had left him with an ... like a bang." He left his hotel room and peered from the first-floor corridor onto the lobby ...
People in Thailand should make disaster preparedness a habit to prevent massive casualties in the future, like those caused by the 2004 tsunami, says the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Tourists look at Police Boat T813 that was swept inland at Tsunami Memorial Khao Lak, Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. Credit: AP/Sakchai Lalit In ...