Indian Ocean Tsunami

Village panchayat (government) president V. Rajasekaran, center, mediates between two factions split in fighting which erupted over the distribution of relief materials in the fishing village of Perumalpettai in Tamil Nadu, India, on January 21, 2005, after the area was struck by the Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004, killing 37 villagers and destroying nearly all of their fishing boats. Generated by an earthquake on the ocean floor, the tsunami devastated the fishing industry along the southeastern coast of India.

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Village panchayat (government) president V. Rajasekaran, center, mediates between two factions split in fighting which erupted over the distribution of relief materials in the fishing village of Perumalpettai in Tamil Nadu, India, on January 21, 2005, after the area was struck by the Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004, killing 37 villagers and destroying nearly all of their fishing boats. Generated by an earthquake on the ocean floor, the tsunami devastated the fishing industry along the southeastern coast of India.