Two years after a devastating tsunami crashed into Asian coastlines, villagers in hardest-hit Indonesia were preparing for future disasters, with thousands expected to flee their homes on foot and by car today as part of an early warning drill.
About one-third of some 600,000 people made homeless have moved into permanent homes, but some 70,000 people still live in roach-infested and leaky wooden barracks.
Mourners from across the world wept, prayed and observed moments of silence along ravaged Indian Ocean coastlines yesterday to remember those killed by one of nature's deadliest disasters
Carl Bergman of Stockholm and his family members attended a private memorial service on Thursday in Phuket, Thailand. Bergman's wife was killed in the tsunami but his son Hannes survived the killer waves and was rescued by a Thai princess.
