Quiet tsunami prayers mark Christmas in Thailand


  • World
  • Sunday, 25 Dec 2005

KHAO LAK, Thailand (Reuters) - Simple Buddhist ceremonies marked Christmas Day in Thailand's tsunami zone on Sunday as relatives of victims remembered their loved ones on the eve of the Indian Ocean disaster's first anniversary. 

"I will have to die before I can forget," said 80-year-old Thai Sorjia Aiawsakul, who lost her son, daughter-in-law and niece in the Dec. 26 tragedy, which killed an estimated 231,000 people in Asia and Africa. 

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