Emotional ceremonies began across Asia on Thursday (Dec 26) to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami devastated coastal areas around the Indian Ocean, in one of the worst natural disasters in human history.
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00:00Emotional ceremonies began across Asia on Thursday to remember the 220,000 people who
00:08died two decades ago when a tsunami devastated coastal areas around the Indian Ocean in one
00:14of the worst natural disasters in human history.
00:18In Indonesia's Aceh province, where more than 100,000 people were killed, a siren rang out
00:23for three minutes at the Baitur Aman Grand Mosque followed by prayers.
00:28Relatives and family members of the deceased gathered at a mass grave in Uli Lo village.
00:58Meanwhile, Thailand held a ceremony with religious rites for victims of the disaster in southern
01:25Panga province.
01:27Hundreds also visited a tsunami memorial wall near Ban Nam Kem village, where the ceremony
01:33was held, to pay their respects to lost loved ones.
01:37Among them was 62-year-old Urai Sirasuk, who lost her then four-year-old daughter to the
01:42tsunami.
01:43Panga was one of Thailand's hardest-hit provinces, with the disaster claiming 5,400 lives, including
02:11many foreign tourists.
02:13In Sri Lanka, survivors and relatives gathered to gather to remember around 1,000 victims
02:19who died when waves derailed a passenger train.
02:22Mourners boarded the restored Ocean Queen Express and headed to Paralia, the exact spot
02:28where it was ripped from the tracks.
02:30The tsunami claimed the lives of over 30,000 people in Sri Lanka alone.
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