BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA – Arif Munandar had been pronounced dead before he woke up in a body bag four days after a monstrous wave swept his village in Indonesia’s northern Aceh province 15 years ago.
When a 9.1 magnitude quake opened a fault line deep beneath the Indian Ocean, it triggered tsunami as high as 17.4 meters (57 feet), killing more than 230,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries.
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