On Boxing Day 20 years ago, disaster struck Thailand when the 2004 tsunami hit.

A series of powerful waves caused unimaginable damage in 14 countries and 225,000 people sadly lost their lives, in the largest natural disaster recorded in history.

Peter Baines, a Former Forensic Investigator who was there to help with victim identification joined Mick & Mark on 6PR Breakfast to recount what it was like in Thailand during the aftermath.

Mr Baines said, ‘The scenes that we encountered were unprecedented.’

‘To walk into a temple where there was 3,500 decomposing bodies laying on the ground was a sight that none of us had seen before,’Mr. Baines continued.

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