The December 26, 2004 disaster was not caused ... her from the “swollen and disfigured” corpses laid out for identification in the days after the tsunami. “Was she buried along with other ...

Grim-faced rescuers were tying ropes to the stiff, jutting legs and arms of bloated corpses ... after an earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered the giant pulverizing waves of the Dec. 26 ...

After the deadliest tsunami ... We walked around thinking there might be dead bodies down there. And maybe my daughter,” she says. On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake under the ...

The start of the clearing-up process in Galle, southern Sri Lanka, after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ... they shouldn't naturally have been, dead bodies everywhere… Things your brain is ...

n the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.3-magnitude earthquake struck the bottom of Indian Ocean, triggering a tsunami that hit ... down in tears on [seeing] dead bodies everywhere.

That early Boxing Day morning in 2004 had begun like any other day in ... was talk of an ‘earthquake under the sea’, and as dead bodies had been picked up overnight, Luke was only aware ...

He was swimming in the sea while on holiday with his family in Sri Lankan capital Colombo when he witnessed the beginnings of a tsunami ... witnessed dead bodies floating around. After what ...

After a long wait at the boat ... me and on top of that there were even more dead bodies. It was a harrowing experience,” he said. The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami claimed the lives of over 30,000 ...

A survivor of the 2004 ... after travelling to Banda Aceh to cover the disaster. "Buildings completely destroyed, piles of rubble, boats in places they shouldn't naturally have been, dead bodies ...

While excited to encounter Sri Lanka’s incredible wildlife, the framing of the tsunami and the recollections of what happened in 2004 were deeply ... lots of other dead bodies in the park ...

For three days, the then 12-year-old roamed the chaotic corridors alone, trying to ignore the growing pile of dead bodies as he frantically ... when the devastating 2004 tsunami hit.

Relatives of tsunami victims claim the bodies of their loved ones after they were identified at ... could lead to a corpse being delivered to the wrong family. Mistakes occurred more frequently ...