PHUKET: Patong Mayor Chalermsak Maneesri led an event at Patong Beach yesterday (Dec 26) to  mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 tsunami.

Survivors and relatives of victims of the Boxing Day Tsunami held memorials in Thailand to mark the disaster’s 20th anniversary today. Families laid flowers and lit candles in Phuket and Phang Nga provinces on the east coast of the country,

People in provinces along Thailand’s Andaman coast held remembrance events on Thursday to mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 tsunami that killed 230,000 people across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries.

Tearful mourners across Asia have commemorated the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean.

Tearful mourners prayed on Thursday as ceremonies were held across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who were killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean in one of the world's worst natural disasters.