The scene at the Marina beach in Madras after tidal waves hit the region. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian fire officials prepare emergency equipment at their headquarters in Ahmedabad for use in disaster relief in the eastern state of Tamil Nadu. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
A man passes bodies at a morturary in Madras after tidal waves hit coastal India. (Prakash Sing AFP/Getty Images)
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Fishing boats and a car among the debris along the coast of Langkawi island, northwest Malaysia, after a tidal wave was triggered by a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the nearby Indonesian island of Sumatra. (AFP/Getty Images)
A woman cries after tidal waves destroyed her house on the coastal areas in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Eranga Jayawardena / AP)
Foreign tourists view damaged bus overturned by waves on Phuket island of Thailand. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Tsunami damage near tourist area of Phuket island, southern Thailand. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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Thai rescuers carry the body of victim after many were drowned or injured along Patong beach in Phuket, southern Thailand. (Karim Khamzin / AP)
A western tourist looks at a wrecked jeep by the sea at Pathong beach in Thailand’s southern Phuket island. (Saeed Khan AFP/Getty Images)
Western tourists flee Phuket beach after rumours spread of secondary tsunamis in southern Thailand. (Saeed Khan AFP/Getty Images)
Thai residents, fearing more waves, sleep on the grass outside the Phuket City Hall. (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)
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Workers search for belongings in the ruins the morning after a tidal wave hit along Pathong beach on southern Thailand’s Phuket island. (Saheed Khan AFP/Getty Images)
A family of injured foreign tourists boards a pick-up truck after being evacuated from an island resort off Krabi, southern Thailand, a day after a tidal wave devastated the coastline. (Roslan Rahman AFP/Getty Images)
A foreign boy is carried by a Thai rescue worker after being evacuated from a nearby island resort off Krabi, southern Thailand. (Roslan Rahman AFP/Getty Images)