On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest ...
People are gathering in prayer and visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive ...
The reek of decaying bodies was impossible to ignore ... Residents looking at the damage caused by the 2004 tsunami at the Peunayong Bridge in Banda Aceh. ST PHOTO: DESMOND FOO The streets ...
Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered tsunami waves that killed some 230,000 people ...
He thought: “If I help these victims, maybe my body and soul will be ... Mosque stands intact after the 2004 tsunami hit the area in Lhoknga, near Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Jan. 30, 2005.
There was no other way to go. When I saw the bodies, I wondered if my own family were among them.” The tsunami killed more than 60,000 people in Banda Aceh, or nearly one quarter of the city’s ...
GRAPHIC CONTENT: Chief Herald photographer Nick Moir flew into Banda Aceh the day after the Boxing Day tsunami. He found a city turned upside down, bodies lying in the streets – and a sense of ...
The brunt of the tsunami was felt in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where 170,000 people perished. Sri Lanka, India and ...