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Train guard Wanigaratne Karunatilake (58), a survivor of the Indian Ocean tsunami, looks out from the Sri Lankan train Samudra Devi as it leaves Pereliya station December 26, 2014. Ten years after a towering wave hurled Samudra Devi, or “Ocean Queen”, off its tracks and killed more than 1,000 people, it made a special journey on Friday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed an estimated 40,000 people in Sri Lanka when it pounded its sand-fringed coastline. The original locomotive and five of its carriages were restored in 2008 and the train headed south from Colombo on Friday at the exact same time as a decade ago, with relatives of victims and a handful of survivors on board. Karunatilake said lives could have saved but those on board were unaware of what was happening and stayed inside the train. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)
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