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The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand. Many remain missing and nearly 400 bodies are unclaimed to this day. Mourners shed tears and comforted each other as they laid ...
A father who saved his family during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has recalled how he "missed death five times on that day". Duncan Ridgley, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, had emigrated ...
Daniel Poole was travelling in Sri Lanka when he was hit by the tsunami, whilst Rachel Harvey witnessed the devastation in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. ‘It was white water and chaos’, recalls Boxing ...
WaveAid was a fund raising concert held on Saturday, 29 January 2005, as a means for raising funds for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, known as the Boxing Day tsunami. It was held at the Sydney Cricket Ground and broadcast on television by Channel [V] and MTV , and on radio by Triple J , Triple M , NOVA and World Audio Radio 2.
A massive tsunami with waves up to 30 m (100 ft) high, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami after the Boxing Day holiday, or as the Asian Tsunami, [10] devastated communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries, violently in Aceh , and severely in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu , and Khao Lak ...
Cricket: The International Cricket Council announces a two-match one-day series between an ICC XI and an Asian XI. The games will raise funds for the humanitarian relief operation in South-East Asia following the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The first game will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia on 10 ...
A BBC reporter looks back to the day in 2004 when the tsunami hit while she was on the Andaman ... Boxing Day, 2004. ... LeBron James scores 31 in record 19th Christmas Day game as Lakers hold off ...
Surrey County Cricket Club hosted a Twenty20 game between Asia and the Rest of the World in aid of the tsunami appeal on 20 June 2005 at the Oval. The game won approval from the England and Wales Cricket Board and the International Cricket Council. The Asia XI won the toss and decided to bat, but the International XI won by 6 wickets with ...