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Asia remembers devastating 2004 tsunami with tears

Sri Lankan tsunami survivor fishermen pull a fishing net on the beach in Peraliya, Sri Lanka. The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami following the Indian Ocean Earthquake killed approximately 230,000 people across fourteen countries. Sri Lankan authorities reported approximately 35,000 confirmed deaths by tsunami. The village of Peraliya was the worst single site of casualties where a train was swept away killing over a thousand people.

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