NAGAPATTINAM, India (AP) — He was a young boy playing cricket with friends on a beach around 9:30 in the morning when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake violently shook the earth, and a tsunami struck from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: The coastal town of Nagapattinam in southern India is scarred by tragedy. Twenty years ago, on December 26, 2004, a ...

NAGAPATTINAM, India (Reuters) - Two years after a wall of water crashed into this southern Indian town, 28-year-old Tamilselvi and her fisherman husband are rebuilding their lives despite losing those ...

NAGAPATTINAM, India - Fourteen-year-old Kavidevi breaks down in tears as her uncle begins to register her and her three sisters at a government centre for tsunami orphans in southern India. She keeps ...

SERUTHUR, India (Reuters) - Saranya was only nine when the giant waves hit her family's village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Boxing Day in 2004. "The water took away everything," said ...

The Indian National Fishermen Union has urged Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay to take steps to reconstruct and strengthen the damaged tsunami protection sea wall along the coast of Keechankuppam, ...