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BBC Radio 5 Live
Children of the Tsunami
49 minutes Posted Dec 26, 2014 at 7:36 pm.
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In the early hours of 26th December 2004 the third largest earthquake ever recorded struck the Indian Ocean.

The result was a tsunami which travelled at 800 km per hour. As it reached the shores the waves grew to over 15 metres in height.
A quarter of a million people died and two million were made homeless in countries across Southeast Asia and beyond.
Ten years on BBC Radio 5 live revisits local survivors, who were children at the time, and British tourists as we remember the horror of one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history.