A father who saved his family during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has recalled how he "missed death five times on that day". Duncan Ridgley, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, had emigrated to Sri Lanka with his three children and then wife, arriving in the country on Christmas Eve.

On 26 December 2004, Amber Owen, 28, from Milton Keynes, was on holiday in Phuket when a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck under the sea in northern Indonesia. It claimed the lives of 230,000 people, but she taken to safety by elephant, Ningnong who she was riding at the time the first wave hit.

The 2004 disaster hit the Indian Ocean coastline leaving thousands of children without parents. Here, former travel agent Lynn Stanier explains how after volunteering she vowed to never stop helping t

John Metcalfe had been living in Thailand for two-and-a-half years when the devastating natural disaster hit 20 years ago

A two-minute silence was observed across Sri Lanka today (December 26) from 9:25 a.m. to 9:27 a.m. to honor the memory

Dr Mahesh Gunasekara was working as director of the 200-bed Kanthale Hospital and looking forward to starting a new job with the charity in early 2005. He said: “Until it happened, we never knew the meaning of the word ‘tsunami’. For us, it was just a Japanese word.”

Around a quarter of a million people are estimated to have died in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, more than half of them from Aceh province in Indonesia. One-thousand kilometres of coastline around the province were smashed by the wave,

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has released a video message commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami.