Melissa Doyle visits Indonesia to mark the 10th anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami

Petry Purenia
Friday, February 13, 2015

au.lifestyle.yahoo.com     |    Monday,  15th December 2014 8:41 am

It’s hard to believe that it's been a decade since the earthquake off the coast of the western Indonesian island of Sumatra caused the devastating 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, which left more than 250,000 people dead or missing across 14 countries.

Banda Aceh, the capital and largest city in the province of Aceh, Indonesia, was the most severely hit city with approximately 160,000 people dead and many more injured, due to it's proximity to 9.3 magnitude earthquake that triggered the tsunami.

 

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Source: au.lifestyle.yahoo.com