Boxing day Tsunami On December 26th 2004 an earth quake measuring 9.2 on the richter scale caused a tsunami which cost the lives of 250,000 people in Asia and Africa. This series of images documents the aftermath of the disaster in Southern Thailand. Above: Rescue workers carry the body of a western tourist who died in a resort in Khao Lak, Thailand.
L: This Thai navy boat was brought over 1km inland by the giant waves R: A young girl looks through the debris of what used to be her home in Khao Lak
Ong Art, whose small hotel in Khao Lak was completely destroyed in the tsumani comforts his daughter at a hospital in Phuket. He had not yet told his daughter that her mother and other family members had died.
L: The body of a western tourist killed by the Tsunami lies amongst the debris of a destroyed resort in Khao Lak. R: people search a list for missing relatives at Phuket's town hall.
Baan Nam Khem fishing village was one of the worst hit areas in Thailand, with more than half of it's population dying in the disaster.
L: A villager form Baan Nam Khem fishing village R: A man helps his daughter to apply a surgical mask
Two young Thai men walk along a beach in Khao Lak. 4 days after the giant waves hit.
The bodies of tsunami victims who perished in Khao Lak and Takua Pa were brought to local temples turned into makeshift morgues.
A destroyed resort in Khao Lak .
A confused and frightened young girl starts to cry at a temporary shelter a few days after the tsunami.
L: A destroyed resort in Khao Lak R: Forensic experts working at Wat Yan Yao temple in Takua Pa. Blocks of dry ice were brought in to preserve the bodies at the temple-cum-morge.
Posters with details of missing persons displayed on a board at a Phuket hospital. An estimated 5000 people died in the disaster and 3000 are still missing.
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