Monks, tourists and villagers remember Asian tsunami
China Daily | Updated: 2009-12-28 07:44
People launch floating paper lanterns into the sky over the sea near the Thai resort island of Phuket on Saturday. |
PHUKET, Thailand: Buddhist monks in orange robes chanted on a Thai beach, an Indonesian mother mourned her children at a mass grave, and a man scattered flowers in now-placid waters to commemorate the neary 230,000 killed five years ago when a tsunami ripped across Asia.
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