Thousands in Indonesia pray on 15th anniversary of tsunami.
News headlines today: Dec. 24, 2019BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Thousands of people knelt in prayer in Indonesia's Aceh province at ceremonies Thursday marking the 15th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, one of modern history's worst natural disasters.
Shops and offices were closed, boats were not allowed to sail and flags were being flown at half staff throughout Aceh on Thursday and Friday. In Thailand, hundreds of people attended a tsunami memorial ceremony at Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village that lost about half of its population of 5,000 when the waves rolled in.
The lucrative tourist industry centered around the island of Phuket was devastated by the disaster — as many as half of the victims were foreigners — but quickly bounced back and has grown much bigger. "I think they didn't die on the day that the tsunami hit. We couldn't find them until the 28th and their bodies hadn't decomposed at all," she told Thai PBS television, with tears welling up."I often imagine how much they would have thought about me before taking their last breaths. But we could not find them, and we couldn't help them. This has stuck with me. And every time I think about it, it hurts.
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