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Indonesia's Aceh province, which was closest to the earthquake, was hit first and hardest. More than , people died in Indonesia alone, about three-quarters of the overall death toll.

Weeping survivors and others attended religious services and memorial ceremonies. Relatives of the dead and religious and community leaders presented flowers at mass graves of victims in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh. 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. Thursday's commemoration came four days after the anniversary of last year's Sunda Strait tsunami, which followed the eruption and partial collapse of the Anak Krakatau volcano.

That tsunami struck coastal regions of Banten on Indonesia's main island of Java and parts of southern Sumatra island, leaving more than people dead and 14, injured. 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, when the waves rolled in.

More than 8, people in Thailand died or went missing in the disaster, and the bodies of almost victims remain unidentified and unclaimed. Western visitors and local residents attended the service at the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park in Phang Nga province, where they viewed a photo display of victims.

Estimates of the death toll in Indonesia top , The ruins the dome of a mosque that was hit by the tsunami, seen on December 14, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

Acehnese women cry as they pray at mass grave to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami on December 26, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Ruins of a bridge that was hit by the tsunami, seen on December 14, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Visitors take pictures of the glowing names of tsunami victims at Aceh Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh on December 26, Survivors of Asia's tsunami and relatives of its victims cried and prayed as they gathered along Indian Ocean shorelines on Friday for memorials to mark the 10th anniversary of a disaster that still leaves an indelible mark on the region.

Personal possessions of tsunami victims are arranged to be photographed outside a police station in Takua Pa, in Phang Nga province, on December 19, Thai police opened a shipping container filled with documents and possessions of victims of the Indian Ocean Tsunami after being asked by Reuters for permission to film its contents.

The three meter by 12 meter container was handed over to Thai police in and contains hundreds of plastic police evidence bags - each one holding the precious items found on the body of a victim. People light candles as survivors, local residents and visitors gather for a ceremony for victims of tsunami in Ban Nam Khem, a southern fishing village destroyed by the wave, on December 26, In Thailand, where 5, people were killed, among them about 2, foreign tourists, commemoration ceremonies will be held in Ban Nam Khem.

Hundreds of lanterns which symbolizes the spirits of victims of the Asian tsunami, are released into the sky during a commemoration service to mark the 10th anniversary of the day this natural disaster happened, on December 26, in Ban Nam Khem, Thailand.

Soe, the eight-year-old daughter of a fisherman from Myanmar, rests in a hammock outside her family home in Ban Nam Khem, Thailand, on December 13, That morning on Patong beach was very quiet. I was stationed close to Patong Hospital on a rescue truck. Then I got hungry, so I drove toward the beach in order to find something to eat. It was the day after the hospital staff party - it was my day off and I had a long lie-in. At , I heard my wooden bedroom windows were shaking.

I told my wife that it must be from the car outside. Then I rolled back to sleep. Samran Chanyang - master of ceremonies and mortician at Yan Yao temple. I led the prayer ceremony on the morning of 26 December , which was a Buddhist holy day.

I said the prayer into the microphone, so everyone could hear it. All of a sudden, we lost the power and we felt the earthquake. I continued without the speaker afterwards. Wittaya Tantawanich. I sat there to enjoy my breakfast with the beach view. As I sat there, I felt the earthquake at around No one panicked or worried.

I continued to sit there waiting to get an emergency call. Sathaporn Sawangpuk - captain of the Mahidol ship. We were on our way back from a month-long marine research trip in the Indian Ocean. We made a stop at Koh Racha Yai island in Phuket for a diving lesson for our interns. The sea was quite calm, the sky was so clear and blue.

I told my team: 'What a perfect day to be in the sea. Primpraow Jitpentom - nurse on a diving trip near the Mahidol ship. I took my friends from Bangkok out for a diving trip on that Sunday morning. I did this many times but my husband had never seen the underwater world. I told him it was really worth it. Captain Sathaporn Sawangpuk. After breakfast, we all went to the end of the boat on the deck to watch the intern diving with instructors.

All of a sudden, I felt the ship lift and swing to the left and to the right. We had no idea what happened, but my instinct told me to start the ship and head out to the middle of the sea.

Primpraow Jitpentom. Our speedboat was getting closer to the shore. All of a sudden, the diving instructor told the boat driver to stop since he noticed something was wrong. Thailand was next. With waves traveling mph across the Indian Ocean, the tsunami hit the coastal provinces of Phang Nga and Phuket an hour and a half later. Despite the time lapse, locals and tourists were caught completely unaware of the imminent destruction. Curious beachgoers even wandered out among the oddly receding waves, only to be chased down by a churning wall of water.

The death toll in Thailand was nearly 5, including 2, foreign tourists. An hour later, on the opposite side of the Indian Ocean, the waves struck the southeastern coast of India near the city of Chennai, pushing debris-choked water kilometers inland and killing more than 10, people, mostly women and children, since many of the men were out fishing. But some of the worst devastation was reserved for the island nation of Sri Lanka, where more than 30, people were swept away by the waves and hundreds of thousands left homeless.