Hi I am in Phuket, and working from my laptop connection, communication is still up and down and real time information is vital (posted some notes on content-wire, appeals seem to work) A photo has been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim it shows bodies of those killed by COVID-19. For those who are looking to locate missing tsunami victims in one of the worst affected districts in India - Nagapattinam, TamilNadu can contact these numbers & go the website Missing persons cell, Nagapattinam 09443995056, 043262-221010/221020 Webpage tsunami.nagapattinampolice.info Source: NDTV Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, tsunami that hit the coasts of several countries of South and Southeast Asia in December 2004. Relatives of tsunami victims cry near their bodies at a school in Tamil Tiger-controlled town of Mulathive, about 163 miles northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Dec. 27, 2004.

On December 26, 2004, at 7:59 am local time, an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The claim is misleading; the image is actually an Associated Press photo which shows victims of the December 26, 2004 tsunami in Thailand. . The tsunami and its aftermath were responsible for immense destruction and loss on the rim of the Indian Ocean. On 26 December 2004, the earthquake, which struck off the northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generated a tsunami that wreaked havoc along much of the rim of the Indian Ocean. A competition to select an artistic memorial to honour the Swedish victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami in Stockholm is close to finding a winner. In October 2015 the National Property Board of Sweden, in close collaboration with the Public Art Agency Sweden, was assigned by the Government to take charge of the artistic design of a memorial commemorating the victims of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in 2004. Open call for artists: Swedish memorial for the 2004 tsunami Fri, Feb 05, 2016 09:13 CET. The humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake of a magnitude of 9.3 was prompted by one of the worst natural disasters of modern times. Sweden and Swedes during the first days after the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004.