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On December 26th, memorial services were held in Indonesia and other Asian nations for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on the 10th anniversary of the disaster, BBC reported. (Photo: Reuters) It has been 10 years since a massive tsunami struck 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean. Services were held to remember the dead in countries including Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka. In Indonesia, the memorial was held in the province of Aceh. The ceremony was attended by President, Joko Widodo, Vice-President, Jusuf Kalla as well as representatives and ambassadors from 35 countries to Indonesia. Indonesia was hardest hit, with more than 160,000 dead. In Thailand, 5,395 people were killed, among them about 2,000 foreign tourists. Almost 3,000 people remain missing. Sri Lanka is marking the anniversary with a symbolic ride of a train the tsunami had derailed, killing 1,270 passengers and religious rituals were held to commemorate the 35,000 people that died in that country. In India, children prayed at an orphanage in Nagapattinam were more than 6,000 people were killed. “This commemoration ceremony is not only to pray for the victims and thank the people around the world, but it is a time when we learn how to resolve the problem, as the lesson from the tsunami taught us, how to resolve a complicated problem by uniting as one,” Vice President of Indonesia Jusuf Kalla said. The devastating on December 26th, 2004, tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck a dozen countries around the Indian Ocean rim, killing 230,000 people. It eradicated entire coastal communities, decimated families and crashed over tourist-filled beaches the morning after Christmas. The waves caused about USD10 billion in damage./. |