Death, devastation, tears, relief

12/31/04
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A Thai woman is comforted by a nurse after searching for missing family members amid hundreds of corpses at a temple in Ban Muan, nearly 130 km north of the Thai resort island of Phuket on December 30. One of the most powerful earthquakes in history hit Asia on Sunday, unleashing a tsunami which devastated coastal areas of Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia and tourist isles in Thailand, killing tens of thousands of people. — Reuters

A Thai woman is comforted by a nurse after searching for missing family members amid hundreds of corpses at a temple in Ban Muan, nearly 130 km north of the Thai resort island of Phuket on December 30. One of the most powerful earthquakes in history hit Asia on Sunday, unleashing a tsunami which devastated coastal areas of Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia and tourist isles in Thailand, killing tens of thousands of people. — Reuters