20 years on: 'My boat was metres from the shore when the Boxing Day tsunami hit'

A BBC reporter looks back to the day in 2004 when the tsunami hit while she was on the Andaman and Nicobar islands.

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20 years after a devastating tsunami, a survivor celebrates what the disaster has given him

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Prayers and tears mark 20 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people

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20 years on: 'My boat was metres from the shore when the Boxing Day tsunami hit'

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