2004 Boxing Day Tsunami Survivor

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2004 Andamans tsunami: My boat was metres from the shore when the waves hit

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The 9.1 magnitude quake was the third most powerful ever recorded in the world - and remains the biggest and most destructive in Asia .

It unleashed a devastating tsunami that killed an estimated 228,000 people across more than a dozen countries.

The Andaman and Nicobar islands, located just about 100 km north of the epicentre, suffered extensive damage when a wall of water, as high as 15 metres ( 49 ft ) hit land 15 minutes later .

The Indian military flew journalists to Car Nicobar , a flat fertile island known for its enchanting beaches and also home to a large Indian air force colony.

A hundred people died here, more than half were air force officers and their families.

A grief-stricken young couple told me they had managed to save their five-month-old baby, but their other children were washed away.

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