Coffins are placed at a warehouse on the port of Phuket, December 28, 2004.
One-year-old Hannes Bergman of Sweden, whose mother is missing after Sunday's tsunami, is held by a caretaker at a hospital in Thailand's tourist island of Phuket on December 28, 2004.
An Indian man cries as he holds the hand of his eight-year-old son killed in a tsunami in Cuddalore, 180 km south of the Indian city of Madras, December 27, 2004. The death toll in a tidal wave triggered by an earthquake that slammed into coasts from India to Indonesia topped 21,000 on Monday as rescuers scoured the sea for missing tourists and soldiers raced to recover bodies amid growing fears of disease. REUTERS/Arko Datta
Tsunami survivors scramble for water supplies as they are unloaded from an aid truck in Karaitivu on Sri Lanka's east coast January 2, 2005.
A skull displaced from its coffin in a grave that was unearthed by the tsunami last weekend lies on roadside in Sinnamunhattuvaram. A skull displaced from its coffin in a grave that was unearthed by the tsunami last weekend lies on the roadside in Sinnamunhattuvaram on Sri Lanka's east coast January 3, 2005.
Idusan, 9, a Sri Lankan tsunami survivor, looks at the camera at a shelter for displaced tsunami survivors in Thambiluvil on Sri Lanka's east coast January 24, 2005. Hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced nearly a month after Sri Lanka's worst natural disaster ravaged the Indian Ocean island's south, east and northern seaboard. REUTERS/Arko Datta
An Indian woman mourns the death of her relative (R) who was killed in tsunami on Sunday in Cuddalore, some 180 km (112 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Madras December 28, 2004. REUTERS/Arko Datta
A man stands in a doorway before removing a corpse that was washed into his house during the tsunami in the village of Pandirupu on Sri Lanka's east coast in this January 5, 2005 file photo.
Women mourn the death of victims killed when a tsunami hit on Sunday during their burial in Cuddalore, India. Women mourn the death of victims killed when a tsunami hit on Sunday during their burial in Cuddalore, 180 km (112 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Madras December 27, 2004.
Michael Will from England walks among ruins of his hotel after devastation caused by tidal waves at Pathong beach, near Phuket. Michael Will from England walks among the ruins of his flattened hotel after returning for his luggage, after devastation caused by tidal waves at Pathong beach, near Phuket, December 27, 2004.
Debris surrounds a destroyed shop in Unawatuna, Sri Lanka December 28, 2004 after a tsunami hit the area on Sunday. Nations on the Indian Ocean from Indonesia to Sri Lanka struggled on Tuesday to find and bury their dead and help the survivors of a tidal wave triggered by an earthquake as fears grew the final toll would far exceed the 29,700 people reported killed.
An upturned vehicle stands vertical against in Unawatuna, outside the southern Sri Lankan town of Galle, December 28, 2004 after a tsunami hit the area over the weekend. Sri Lankans of all castes and creeds pulled together on Tuesday to try to salvage what remains of their lives, following a series of tsunami waves that devastated coastlines across Asia.
A Buddhist monk looks at a wrecked carriage after an entire train was destroyed by Sunday's tsunami in the town of Paraliya, 90 km (56 miles) south of Colombo, Sri Lanka December 30, 2004.
A hotel swimming pool at Patong Beach in Phuket, Thailand, is left with trash after the town was hit by a tsunami. A hotel swimming pool at Patong Beach in Phuket December 27, 2004 is left with trash after the town was hit by a tsunami on Sunday. Thailand evacuated injured survivors of the devastating tidal wave, which was triggered by an earthquake, from its southern beaches on Monday as the national death toll jumped to 839.
A picture of missing Australian Troy Broadbridge is pegged to a tree on Thailand's Phi Phi island January 3, 2005.
Sri Lankan Muslims pray for an identified infant killed in the tsunami, prior to the infant's burial in the town of Kalmunai on Sri Lanka's east coast January 14, 2005.
Residents in the tsunami-ravaged Indonesian town of Leupung in Aceh carry bodies to a freshly dug grave on January 27, 2005.
An Indian fisherman inspects his fishing boat which was brought ashore by the tsunami in Kanniyakumari, 740 km (463 miles) south from the Indian city of Madras January 5, 2005.
A man reacts next to a building that was destroyed when a tsunami hit on Sunday in Cuddalore, 180 km (112 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Madras December 27, 2004. India's weather bureau on Monday warned that more tsunamis could strike the coast over the next couple of days but said they would be smaller than the giant tidal wave triggered by an earthquake that killed thousands around Asia. REUTERS/Arko Datta
A man cycles along the flooded Karaitivu road in Kalmunai in Sri Lanka's east coast January 2, 2005. Grimacing at the acrid stench of death, fishermen waded into the sea off Sri Lanka's tsunami-raved southern coast on Sunday to recover their sunken vessels as thousands tried to pick up the pieces of broken lives.
An injured foreign tourist is sent to a hospital after a tsunami hit Phuket, about 862 km (536 miles) south of Bangkok, December 26, 2004.
Tsunami survivors rush for clothes and food donated by volunteer organisations in Cuddalore, about 180 km (112 miles) south of the Indian city of Madras December 29, 2004.
Indonesian soldiers remove a body from the village of Simpang Lima, one of thousands killed in the area, on the outskirts of Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra January 1, 2005.
An Indian tsunami survivor looks or her belongings amid the debris of her tsunami-destroyed house being burnt by Indian workers in Nagapattinam. An Indian tsunami survivor looks for her belongings amid the debris of her tsunami-destroyed house that is being burnt by Indian workers in a fishing hamlet in Nagapattinam, 350 km (219 miles) south of the Indian city of Madras January 3, 2005.
Muslims stand and pray at the grave of a young girl buried on Kalmunai beach following the December 26 tsunami on Sri Lanka's east coast January 7, 2005.
An Acehnese boy cheers the arrival of a Japanese Self Defense Force helicopter near Panga on Aceh's tsunami-devestated west coast February 12, 2005.
Swedes mourn the loss of their family members while sitting on the coast line of the Andaman Sea, during the one-year Indian Ocean tsunami anniversary in Khao Lak, Thailand's Phang Nga province, about 110 km (68 miles) north of the resort island of Phuket, December 26, 2005. Thousands of locals and foreigners gathered in southern Thailand to commemorate the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed 5,395 people and wiped out 47 villages along the country's Andaman Sea coastline. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
The aerial view of Marina beach after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean hit the area in the southern Indian city of Madras December 26, 2004.
A view of the damage near Baiturrahman mosque December 27, 2004 after a tsunami hit the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh on Sunday. Soldiers searched for bodies in treetops, families wept over the dead laid on beaches and rescuers scoured coral isles for missing tourists as Asia counted the cost on Monday of a tsunami that killed thousands. REUTERS/Beawiharta
Submerged building near the pier at Ton Sai Bay in Thailand's Phi Phi island, December 28, 2004 after a tsunami hit the area. Nations bordering the Indian Ocean from Indonesia to Sri Lanka clawed through the wreckage of a devastating quake-triggered tsunami for bodies to bury on Tuesday as fears grew the toll would far exceed the 50,000 now reported killed. REUTERS/Luis Enrique Ascui
Sri Lankan man cries as he carries the body of a young relative to a hospital in Karapitiya outside Galle December 27, 2004. Wailing relatives scrambled over hundreds of bodies piled in a Sri Lankan hospital on Monday, searching for loved ones after a tsunami devastated coastal regions of the paradise island and killed at least 4,500 people. REUTERS/Thomas White
A Swedish man comforts his Thai girlfriend and relatives during the cremation of her relative, who was killed by Sunday's tsunami, in Thap Lamu, Thailand. Swedish Olof Carlsson (R) comforts his Thai girlfriend, Oi, and her relatives during the cremation of her relative, who was killed by Sunday's tsunami, in Thap Lamu, about 900 km (560 miles) south of Bangkok December 29, 2004.
A woman weeps on the tsunami-battered beach in Karaitivu in Sri Lanka's Kalmunai district in the east coast January 2, 2005.
Two young Muslim girls watch as an excavator clears a path on a street destroyed by the tsunami in the town of Kalumnai, Sri Lanka. Two young Muslim girls watch as an excavator clears a path on a street destroyed by the tsunami in the town of Kalumnai on Sri Lanka's east coast January 4, 2005.
A man sits in the remains of his home that was destroyed in the December 26 tsunami in the village of Pandiruppu on Sri Lanka's east coast January 6, 2005.
Salvaged belongings are kept against a tree in the tsunami ravaged town of Kalmunai on Sri Lanka's east coast January 14, 2005.
An Acehnese man looks at a boat left on top of a house as a result of the tsunami in the Indonesian provincial city of Banda Aceh February 24, 2005.
Tsunami survivor Abhilash Jeyaraj, also known as "Baby 81", sits on a chair as he waits for a ride to school in his family's home in Kurukkalmadam in Batticaloa district November 23, 2009.
An Acehnese girl cries with her mother near the ruins of their house in Banda Aceh, December 29, 2004. Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said on Wednesday the death toll from the weekend quake and tsunami had reached as high as 40,000 people. He said an estimated five percent of the 300,000 population of the Aceh's provincial capital, Banda Aceh, had died. REUTERS/Beawiharta
Sri Lankan woman sits in front of her destroyed house in Kalmuni December 30, 2004.
An Indian tsunami survivor, displaced from her home, looks on at a relief centre in Nagapattinam, 350 km (219 miles) south of the Indian city of Madras January 3, 2005.
Tsunami refugees receive supplies distributed by USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group in Krueng Raya, northeast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Tsunami refugees receive supplies distributed by the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group in Krueng Raya, some 15 miles northeast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia January 3, 2005.
An Acehnese man leaps across a pool of water near the ruins of his house in the tsunami-hit city of Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra January 8, 2005.
An Acehnese woman cries as she sits on the foundation of her home on the outskirts of the tsunami-hit city of Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra February 6, 2005.
Women hold onto each other as they queue to register for aid in a refugee camp in Karaitivu in the Kalmunai area of Sri Lanka's east coast January 2, 2005.
15 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami