Sri Lanka commemorates 2004 tsunami, marking 35,000 deaths with a symbolic train stop.

On the 20th anniversary of the 2004 tsunami, Sri Lanka's Ocean Queen Express train stopped in Peraliya to commemorate the disaster that killed over 35,000 in the country. The train, hit by massive waves while carrying about 1,000 passengers, was thrown 100 meters from the shore. Survivors and relatives board the train annually from Colombo, stopping to pay respects at a beachside memorial for the victims buried in mass graves. The tsunami, triggered by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Sumatra, claimed 226,408 lives globally.

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