Providing milk and flowers to the ocean, silent processions and prayers alongside Tamil Nadu’s prolonged shoreline on Thursday marked 20 years for the reason that huge Tsunami struck the state on December 26, 2004.
Individuals from all walks of lives joined the fishers and the Tsunami survivors in paying a tearful homage. Individuals visited the mass burial websites since morning and provided silent prayers in remembrance of the lives claimed by the enormous tidal wave.
In Chennai, Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi together with the fishermen and the households who misplaced their kin within the devastating 2004 Tsunami, participated within the Tsunami Remembrance Day march on the Marina Seaside right here. He honoured the reminiscence of those that misplaced their treasured lives on this catastrophic tragedy, the Raj Bhavan stated.
The large wave had swallowed about 7,993 folks within the state together with 6,065 lives in Nagapattinam district alone within the tsunami triggered by an earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean close to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
The unprecedented devastation because of the fury of the waves affected round 50 city panchayats of six coastal districts of Kancheepuram, Villupuram, Cuddalore, Nagapattinam, Kanyakumari, and Thoothukudi within the state. As per the depth of catastrophe, the affected city panchayats had been categorised as worst broken and partially broken and 19 out of fifty city panchayats had been declared as worst broken because the lack of lives and injury to property was excessive, an official stated.
The calm Sunday following Christmas had was a dreaded nightmare for a number of tons of of households within the coastal districts from Cuddalore to Kanyakumari. The massive waves ravaged habitations, and infrastructure in addition to claiming human lives.
Individuals gathered in massive numbers and paid homage on the memorial in Nagapattinam, Cuddalore, and Kanyakumari districts, too. In Thoothukudi, the folks lit candles, provided milk and flowers on the sea.
At Nagore, the residents paid homage at a mass burial web site on the dargah land and lighted candles.
The remembrance day was noticed at Pichavaram, and in Mayiladuthurai the place the folks from 28 fishing villages, too, paid their homage.
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