(20 Dec 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Phuket, Thailand – 26 December 2004
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1. Various of locals and tourists too frightened to be at sea level bedding down on hillside above Patong
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Phuket, Thailand – 27 December 2004
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2. Wrecked truck with back wheels trapped on high wall at Patong beach
3. Damaged shops on Patong street
4. Man retrieving photo from debris, wiping it off and giving thumbs-up
5. Damaged houses, small boat and car
6. Tourist pulling luggage down street
7. Tearful tourists reuniting
8. Smashed giant billboard of then-monarch, King Bhumibol, at Patong beach
9. Damage at Patong beach
10. Covered bodies on trolleys outside Patong clinic
11. Tearful woman walking away
12. Coffins
13. People lifting coffin onto vehicle
14. Make-shift help and information point for foreigners
15. Various of people gathered, holding signs at information point for foreigners
16. Various of people inside Phuket Airport
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Khao Lak, Thailand – 28 December 2004
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17. Various of damage, uprooted palm trees beside road
18. Damaged truck
19. Damaged bus in lake
20. Various of recovery teams covering noses due to smell of bodies
21. Woman being comforted by friends
22. Various of police patrol boat washed up on land
23. Various of rescue and recovery workers at a temple being used as a temporary morgue for hundreds of victims
24. Various of a luxury hotel damaged by tsunami, recovery teams combing wreckage
25. Soldiers searching damaged building
26. Soldiers carrying out bodies in sheets
27. Rescue workers carrying body on stretcher
28. Various of people looking at boards with information about missing and dead
29. Various aerials of Khao Lak area
STORYLINE:
On Dec. 26, 2004, the Indian Ocean Tsunami hit a dozen countries, especially in South and Southeast Asia, following a 9.1 magnitude earthquake that struck off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island.
About 230,000 people were killed and some 1.7 million people were displaced, mostly in the four worst affected countries, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.
At least 5,400 people were killed, some 3,000 missing and 8,000 injured in provinces along Thailand’s Andaman coast, according to the Thai authorities.
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