Victims and survivors of Boxing Day tsunami remembered 20 years on Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster.
Mr Poole, now aged 44, said: “I leapt out of bed to the window and pulled back the old bit of fabric serving as a curtain to see a great wall of white water, as tall as our single-storey building, rolling up over the wave we surfed and then crashing up the beach.”.
A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami which killed more than 200,000 people.
In Indonesia people gathered in Ache province to mark the anniversary, including in Ulee Lheue village, where more than 14,000 unidentified and unclaimed victims are buried.
About 230,000 people died in 14 countries across south-east and southern Asia, and as far as eastern and southern Africa after the disaster.
