Death toll from Indonesia tsunami continues to rise 01:48. Christmas celebrations traditionally filled with laughter and uplifting music were replaced by somber prayers for tsunami victims in an ...

Christmas celebrations were replaced by somber prayers, and church leaders called on Christians across Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, to pray for tsunami victims.

SUMUR, Indonesia – The Christmas holiday was somber with prayers for tsunami victims in the Indonesian region hit by waves that struck without warning Saturday night. Markus Taekz said his ...

Somber Christmas on Indonesia’s tsunami-hit islands as death toll tops 420. December 25, 2018. Residents walk among debris in Sumur, in the Banten province of Indonesia, on Tuesday, ...

Back in 2004, on the day after Christmas, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean also triggered a cataclysmic tsunami that struck 14 regional countries. That disaster left 120,000 dead in ...

The day after Christmas 2004, the Asian Tsunami killed nearly a quarter of a million people. Most of them, more than 175,000, died in the Indonesia's Aceh Province.

Within hours, the tsunami had claimed nearly 230,000 human lives and displaced millions of people in 12 countries. Thursday marks the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the ...

A warning that would have alerted countries in the path of the Christmas tsunami was not sent because of red tape, The Independent on Sunday has learned. But if the 30ft wave had been a mere ...

Khao Lak, Thailand, Dec 25 (EFE).- Two decades after the devastating 2004 tsunami, thousands of tourists returned to Thailand’s Andaman Sea coast to celebrate Christmas on Wednesday.

On the day after Christmas 2004, a horrifying tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean. It claimed an estimated 230,000 lives. With no warning system in the Indian Ocean, scientists were helpless to ...