Tsunami-hit nations across Asia will hold memorials and ceremonies next week to mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which claimed over 220,000 lives.
Beachside memorials and religious ceremonies will be held across Asia in Indonesia , Sri Lanka , India, and Thailand , the hardest-hit countries by one of the deadliest disasters in modern history, which claimed over 220,000 lives.Dancers perform for visitors at the Aceh Tsunami Museum ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in Banda Aceh on December 14, 2024.
/ Photo: AFP Tsunami-hit nations will next week commemorate the more than 220,000 people who died in the Boxing Day disaster two decades ago, when huge waves tore into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean. Beachside memorials and religious ceremonies will be held across Asia in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, which were the worst hit by one of the deadliest disasters in modern history. On December 26, 2004, tsunami waves as high as 30 metres (98 feet) in some areas wiped out coastal areas, splintered families, left thousands homeless and killed tourists on their winter breaks to palm-fringed beaches. 'My children, wife, father, mother, all of my siblings were swept away,' said survivor and fisherman in Indonesia's Aceh province Baharuddin Zainun, 70.An undersea 9.1-magnitude quake caused the biggest faultline fracture ever recorded, sending giant waves hurtling towards coastal communities around the Indian Ocean basin. The seabed being ripped open pushed waves at double the speed of a bullet train, crossing the Indian Ocean within hours without warning. A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami, according to EM-DAT, a recognised global disaster database. In Indonesia, where more than 160,000 died, mourners will gather in Banda Aceh for a series of ceremonies, starting with a moment of silence shortly before 8 am local time (0100 GMT) when the disaster struc
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