The “Boxing Day Tsunami” had a devastating effect, claiming around 228,000 lives, nearly 170,000 in Indonesia. Sri Lanka was second to that, with 36,000 people losing their lives in the flooding.

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for ...

Sri Lanka's Ocean Queen Express became a symbol of the biggest natural disaster to hit the South Asian nation in living memory, when the train was struck by the giant waves of December 26, 2004 ...

The Transport Ministry is studying the recommendations made by the three-member committee appointed to investigate the tsunami train disaster at Telwatte, Minister A.H.M. Fowzie said. He told The ...

Just inland from the crashing waves on Sri Lanka's palm-fringed shores, the train slowly came to a stop on Thursday -- marking the moment a deadly tsunami hit 20 years ago. Sri Lanka's Ocean Queen ...

The train disaster became a symbol of the 2004 tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA The train disaster became a symbol of the 2004 tsunami ...