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February 25 2005: Searchers have retrieved a battered digital camera belonging to a Canadian couple holidaying in Thailiand who used it to record the tsunami that killed them.

Last pictures
John and Jackie Knill, from Vancouver, pose for the camera a few days before the Boxing Day disaster.
Photograph: AP/Knill family

 
Coiled strength
The waters recede at Khao Lak beach as the first massive wave gathers its strength.
Photograph: AP/Knill family

 
Sweeping all before
A wall of water rushes irresistibly onward.
Photograph: AP/Knill family

 
The blow lands
"I don't know why they didn't run," the couple's son, Christian, told Global TV in Vancouver. Either they knew they couldn't or they didn't know the power of the wave."
Photograph: AP/Knill family

 
Too late
Deadly waters scour the shore.
Photograph: AP/Knill family

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