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Tears, Prayers As Asia Mourns Tsunami Dead 20 Years On

Tears, Prayers As Asia Mourns Tsunami Dead 20 Years On

Tearful mourners prayed and lit candles Thursday at ceremonies across Asia to remember the 220,000 people killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean in one of the world’s worst disasters. A 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia’s western tip on December 26, 2004, generated a series of waves as high as 30 metres (98 feet) that …

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