Anak Krakatau

Life and death choices for tsunami victims

Udin Ahok was forced to make a choice that no one would ever want to make: save his wife or his mother and baby.The 46-year-old Indonesian had just gone to sleep on Saturday evening when – without warning – a wall of water smashed into his house in Way Muli village on the coast of Sumatra. Panicked, he fought to reach his sleeping 70-year-old mother and one-year-old son but then he saw his wife about to drown in the swirling waters.

26 December 2018
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No warning meant no escape from Indonesia tsunami

An unpredictable chain of events and an inadequate early warning system combined to deadly effect with the tsunami that slammed into coastal areas of Indonesia killing nearly 300 people, disaster officials and experts said Monday.The killer wave struck tourist beaches and low-lying settlements on both sides of the Sunda Strait with devastating force on Saturday night, catching both residents and disaster monitors totally unaware.

25 December 2018
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