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The highest death toll was in Hafun, with 19 dead and 160 people presumed missing out of its 5,000 inhabitants. This was the highest number of casualties in a single African town and the largest tsunami death toll in a single town to the west of the Indian subcontinent. Small drawbacks were observed before the third and most powerful tsunami ...
According to Swedish authorities, some 20,000–30,000 citizens were in the tsunami-affected areas at the time, mainly in Thai resorts. 543 persons were reported deceased, and over 1,500 in need of emergency medical help and/or transportation home. 528 bodies had been identified as of May 16, 2006. [17]
Indonesia suffered the worst of the devastation, with more than 170,000 people killed. In Thailand, beach resort tourists comprised about half of the nation’s death toll of 5,000, while in Sri ...
However, the death toll in Khao Lak may have exceeded 4,500. Khao Lak was the coastal area of Thailand hardest hit by the tsunami resulting from the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake . [ 6 ]
Twenty years after the 2004 tsunami, ... where I had arrived on Christmas Eve. ... The official death toll was put at 1,310 – but with more than 5,600 people missing and presumed dead, it's ...
Luke Simon, from Somerset, was celebrating Christmas with his brother Piers and their friends in Thailand's Koh Phi Phi resort when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit on Boxing Day in 2004.
Coastal and rural communities in Somalia, as far as 4,500 km (2,800 mi) from the epicentre of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, were swept away or destroyed by the resulting tsunami on 26 December 2004. As of 5 January 2005, the confirmed death toll stood at 298.
A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami. ... Death toll climbs to 10 and thousands of structures destroyed in California wildfires.