Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern ...

Hoosier Jim Morris was serving as the head of the World Food Programme, which had been providing aid to the island of Sri ...

Eight days of wind, snow, and mechanical malfunctions kept the Chilkat Pass area of the Haines Cut-off highway closed, ...

The 26-year-long civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE officially ended in May 2009 after claiming around 70,000 lives and displacing four times as many. Both sides committed a ...

The US exploited the opportunity to land American troops in Sri Lanka for the first time under the guise of helping the tsunami victims. The Australian government aimed not only to strengthen its ...

Sri Lanka’s then Deputy Executive Director ... reptiles and other wild animals live. While tsunami victims were languishing in appalling conditions in inhospitable temporary shelters, there ...

A two-minute silence was also observed nationwide today from 9:25 to 9:27 AM in remembrance of all those who perished in the 2004 tsunami and other natural calamities in Sri Lanka. The Disaster ...

"We are here to pay respects to the people who lost their lives." In Sri Lanka, survivors and relatives of tsunami victims gathered at the coastal village of Pereliya and laid flowers at a ...

A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami ... In Sri Lanka, where more than 35,000 people perished, survivors and relatives gathered to remember around 1,000 victims who died ...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi on Thursday paid floral tribute to the victims ... Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and India, were killed. Tamil Nadu was also ravaged by the tsunami.

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to ... the 20th anniversary in Peraliya, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024.

Picture: AFP In Sri Lanka, where more than 35,000 people ... and wreaths at a curved wall in the shape of a tsunami wave with plaques bearing victims’ names. Napaporn Pakawan, 55, lost her ...