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December 30, 2004
Tsunami Miracle Baby Found Floating On Mattress
Topics: Southeast Asia Earthquake and Tsunami
Click on image to enlarge - BBC News
Amid the despair, there were some stories of hope. A 20-day-old baby
was discovered after surviving the tsunamis in Malaysia by floating on
a mattress.
A 20-day-old baby was found alive floating on a mattress in her parents' damaged restaurant in northern Malaysia after the region was slammed by tidal waves, it was reported today(Dec 28).
S Tulasi was sleeping in a
room at the restaurant when the huge waves struck on Sunday in the
holiday resort of Penang. The swirling waters swept her parents out of
the restaurant.
Luckily, her parents later managed to claw their way back to the badly-damaged building.
"Thank God the mattress was floating in about 5ft deep water and my
baby was crying," the baby's father, A Suppiah, told the national news
agency Bernama.
But others were not so lucky. Fisherman Zulkfli Mohd Noor, 42, and his wife lost their five children to the tidal waves.
Zulkifli said his family was collecting fish left stranded on the
seabed when the sea water was briefly sucked out to sea before coming
pounding back in the tidal waves, the Malay-language Utusan Malaysia
reported.
"I did not for one moment think the dead fishes were a sign that a
tsunami was going to crash into us just seconds later," Zulkifli told
the paper. Scotsman.com News...
Posted by Hyscience at December 30, 2004 12:35 AM
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Comments
Sudenly after the news of the tsunami's death all problems seems to be stupid. A prair for the victims (alive and dead) and hope of a shining sun again.
From Buenos Aires.
Posted by: Chris at December 30, 2004 10:56 AM
I saw where a woman gave birth to a baby boy 9 hours after her husband saved her from the tsunami. I would like to send a child's music box to them. How can I do that? Thank you.
Posted by: M. Harris at January 6, 2005 6:55 PM
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