PHUKET: The 4th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, which was triggered past times an earthquake that measured roughly nine on the Richter scale.
The seismic sea wave hitting Phuket on the forenoon of Dec 26, 2004.
More than 5,000 people, generally international tourists, were killed inwards Thailand's 6 Andaman coastal provinces when the killer waves struck. Indonesia, Republic of Republic of India as well as Sri Lanka were likewise difficult hitting past times the waves created past times the earthquake.
According to the Thai Tsunami Victim Identification as well as Repatriation Center inwards Phang Nga, the bodies of nearly 400 seismic sea wave victims rest unidentified.
Center manager Nitinai Sornsongkram said that despite ongoing efforts, 388 of the 3,696 bodies that the pump received inwards Feb 2005 convey yet to endure identified as well as retrieved past times relatives. At present, 445 persons are even as well as then unaccounted for. Of these, 290 are Thai, 95 are Burmese as well as lx are Scandinavian.
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