Twelve years after Asia tsunami, 400 bodies unidentified in Thailand


  • World
  • Monday, 26 Dec 2016

Survivors, local residents and visitors release paper lanterns during the ceremony for victims of the 2004 tsunami in Ban Nam Khem, a fishing village destroyed by the wave December 26, 2014. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

BANGKOK (Reuters) - At least 400 victims of Asia's 2004 tsunami that killed 226,000 people remain unidentified in Thailand 12 years on, police said on Monday.

The 9.15 magnitude Dec. 26 earthquake triggered a tsunami across the Indian Ocean in one of the biggest natural disasters in history.

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