{"id":68498,"date":"2024-12-25T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/26\/abc-journalist-recalls-horrors-of-2004-boxing-day-tsunami"},"modified":"2024-12-25T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T14:00:17","slug":"we-were-falling-over-bodies-abc-journalist-recalls-horrors-of-2004-boxing-day-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68498","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We were falling over bodies\u2019: ABC journalist recalls horrors of 2004 Boxing Day tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first western reporter into severely damaged Indonesian region of Aceh in disaster\u2019s aftermath witnessed the scale of the devastation firsthand<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The former ABC Indonesia correspondent Tim Palmer says the sight of dozens of tiny bodies lined up was the most heartrending scene he witnessed in the aftermath of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamily after family had their children sucked from their grasp; they were actually holding them and holding a tree at the same time and were still not able to save their infant child,\u201d Palmer says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/26\/abc-journalist-recalls-horrors-of-2004-boxing-day-tsunami\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first western reporter into severely damaged Indonesian region of Aceh in disaster\u2019s aftermath witnessed the scale of the devastation firsthand\u2022 Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe former ABC Indonesia correspondent Tim P&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1631,681,3210,1709,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australian-broadcasting-corporation","category-australian-media","category-indian-ocean-tsunami-2004","category-natural-disasters","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68510,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498\/revisions\/68510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}