Asia marks tsunami anniversary

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Source: al jazeera

Saffron-robed monks have chanted and prayed in Phuket and adjoining Ban Nam Khem in Thailand, among other places in Asia, for victims of the 2004 tsunami.

The gathering in this small fishing village on the country's Andaman Sea coast that lost nearly half its 5,000 people, was one of hundreds of solemn events across Asia in memory of the tsunami victims.

A wall of water as high as 30 metres triggered by an undersea earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, crashed ashore with little warning on December 26, 2004, killing 200,000 people in 13 countries.

He lost 10 family members in the tsunami.


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/12/2009122651738385180.html

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