TAKUA PA, Dec 16 — Fifteen years after the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 230,000 people on Boxing Day, 2004, a cargo container at a police station in southern Thailand bears witness to the hundreds of victims whose remains were never identified. Inside are personal items — wallets,...
People stand next to pictures of victims of the 2004 tsunami victims during a religious ceremony in Ban Nam Khem in Phang Nga Province, Thailand December 26, 2016. — Reuters pic
Inside are personal items — wallets, documents, electronics, all bagged and labeled as evidence — that police hope might one day help to give a name and a proper resting place to those buried nearby in graves marked only by numbers. Triggered by a massive 9.1-magnitude earthquake, the tsunami killed more than 230,000 people as waves as high as 17.4 meters crashed onto the shores of more than a dozen countries, wiping some communities off the map in seconds.
Colonel Khemmarin was part of that international team, but he said 15 years later a lot of the “communication channels have shut down” and leads had been lost.
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