Survivors prayed at mass graves and mosques yesterday to mark the third anniversary of the Asian tsunami, while warning sirens sent hundreds fleeing beaches during a drill to test an alert network establish since the disater. The waves on Dec 26,2004, spawned by the mightiest earthquake in 40 years, killed around 230,000 people in 12 Indian Ocean nations, with just under half of the casualties in the Indonesian province of aceh on Sumatra island. The waves also crash into tourist resorts killing more than 5,000 tourist.
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ecumenical-> involving friendship between religions: involving or promoting friendly relations between different religions
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