SRI LANKA-ASIA-TSUNAMI-ANNIVERSARY-TRAIN

SRI LANKA-ASIA-TSUNAMI-ANNIVERSARY-TRAIN

A Sri Lankan railway employee walks past a train compartment that was swept away during the 2004 tsunami and later retrieved and restored, as the Ocean Queen Express prepares to set off from the Colombo Fort railway station in Colombo on December 26, 2014, the tenth anniversary of the deadly Asian tsunami. The same train was hit the tsunami, killing some 1,000 passengers, making it a symbol of the tragedy that claimed an estimated 31,000 people across the island. AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S. KODIKARA