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Shattered and broken, survivors of the Boxing Day disaster arrived home to Manchester Airport
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukTears rolling down her face, Frances Brennan is pictured hugging her son Jonnie as he arrived at Manchester Airport. Below the photograph on the front page of the Manchester Evening News the headline reads: 'Home from hell'.
It's late December 2004 and the survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami, one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history are finally arriving home.
Jonnie and his brother Gerard landed back in the UK on an emergency flight from Sri Lanka. After the tidal wave hit, they spent hours stranded on a roof before being rescued.
They were among the lucky ones. On December 26, 2004, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2 – 9.3 struck deep in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Indonesia triggering a massive tsunami.
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