{"id":39893,"date":"2024-12-26T17:29:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T22:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/survivors-mark-20-years-since-worlds-deadliest-tsunami-with-ceremonies-at-places-devastated-by-the-2004-tragedy\/26\/12\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T17:29:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T22:29:51","slug":"survivors-mark-20-years-since-worlds-deadliest-tsunami-with-ceremonies-at-places-devastated-by-the-2004-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/survivors-mark-20-years-since-worlds-deadliest-tsunami-with-ceremonies-at-places-devastated-by-the-2004-tragedy\/26\/12\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivors Mark 20 Years Since World’s Deadliest Tsunami with Ceremonies at Places Devastated by the 2004 Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thousands gathered in mourning on Thursday, Dec. 26, to mark two decades since the world\u2019s largest tsunami.<\/p>\n

On Dec. 26, 2004, in one of the worst natural disasters of the modern era, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake spurred catastrophic waves that brought destruction and devastation to at least 12 countries. It left some 230,000 people dead, and some 1.7 million more were displaced \u2014\u00a0hitting India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand the hardest.<\/p>\n

At mass graves throughout Indonesia\u2019s Aceh province on Thursday, people gathered and prayed to honor victims of the tragedy, The Associated Press<\/a> reported. At one in Ulee Lheue village, where 14,000 unidentified victims are buried, families of those killed by the tsunami wept and placed flowers.<\/p>\n

There were similar memorial ceremonies in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing town in Thailand that was among those most devastated by the tsunami in the country, as well Chennai, India, and Pereliya, Sri Lanka, the AP reported.<\/p>\n

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