Chennai, India Women carry flowers to be thrown into the sea during a ceremony for the victims of the 2004 tsunami at Pattinapakkam beach. The earthquake and tsunami that struck the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 killed more than 230,000 people and devastated coastal communities, including the shorelines of the southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala

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