Swedish women embrace after releasing traditional candle-lit kratongs into the Andaman Sea in remembrance of tsunami victims after a Swedish memorial service on the one-year anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Khao Lak, located in Thailand's Phang Nga province, nearly 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