Indian Ocean Tsunami

Fish shapes mark the graves of two young children of a local fisherman who were killed by the tsunami in the village of Muttom in the Kanniyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India on February 1, 2005, after the area was struck by the Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004. Generated by an earthquake on the ocean floor, the tsunami devastated the fishing industry along the southeastern coast of India.

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Fish shapes mark the graves of two young children of a local fisherman who were killed by the tsunami in the village of Muttom in the Kanniyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India on February 1, 2005, after the area was struck by the Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004. Generated by an earthquake on the ocean floor, the tsunami devastated the fishing industry along the southeastern coast of India.