On Boxing Day in 2004, a young Australian was having ... Khao Lak beach the day before the tsunami. Picture: Supplied “It was the day after Christmas and we were excited to go scuba diving ...

Luke Simon, who survived the devastated 2004 Boxing Day tsunami which killed his brother, has shared the haunting two words ...

A woman who got engaged on Christmas Day in 2004, saw her world fall apart less than 24 hours later as her new fiance and two young sons were swept away in the Boxing Day Tsunami. Twenty years on ...

Ducan Rigley said after the tsunami ... before the third wave hit. "My focus was on saving the kids' lives - in total there were five waves. "It was like going through five Viking battles in a day." ...

MOURNERS wept today as they marked the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami which killed 230,000 ... room was the roof dropping down on us before we were washed out through the rear wall ...

Over 250 tourists, locals and guides around Yala National Park lost their lives in the Boxing Day tsunami ... Starting just before sunrise each morning, a fleet of Jeeps with excited tourists ...

A woman who managed to survive the Boxing Day tsunami thanks to an extreme stroke ... "My life flashed before my eyes; I didn't want to die, so I fought tooth and nail to stay alive.

Ani Naqvi remembers the Boxing Day tsunami 20 years ago not just as the day when she nearly lost her life but one that gave her new purpose. She had just turned 33 and was visiting a friend in the ...

It would be a month before the worst was confirmed ... they cremated it straight away.” This year, Boxing Day marks two decades since one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off ...

Just as Australians had come running to the aid of victims 30 years earlier in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, brought out the best in the world; when confronted with ...

It was Boxing Day, 2004. Andrew Gissing was watching ... “There wasn’t a lot done for tsunami in Australia before 2004. There’s obviously been a lot done since,” Gissing said.