- Edited and Published by S.K Nair Director Edutech Foundation - Bangalore
SOUTH LAMPUNG, Indonesia: 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 (Dec 22) 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.He plucked her to safety and they survived the fury of a volcano-triggered tsunami that smashed into Indonesia's coast, killing more than 400 people who had no time to escape.
