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Macleans.ca | Top Stories | Quake-driven wall of water brings disaster to beach resorts in Thailand
PHUKET, Thailand (CP) - Thousands of European tourists were beginning their day with breakfast or by sunning themselves on Thailand’s white sand beaches when massive waves triggered by an earthquake swept people, bungalows, boats and cars out to sea.
Sunday’s earthquake off Indonesia’s Sumatra island sent tsunamis rolling across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal - and a wall of water along the resorts around Thailand’s Phuket island, one of the most popular destinations in Asia for Europeans fleeing winter cold at home.