70-year-old man found alive in tsunami rubble in Aceh
A 70-year-old Indonesian man has been found alive after surviving for 11 days under the rubble of his home that was demolished in the tsunami disaster, a report said yesterday.
Rescue workers uncovered Muhammad Zaini in a very weak condition as they ploughed through wreckage in Banda Aceh, the nearly flattened capital of Aceh province.
"The ground shook, the house's walls collapsed. It seems that I was floating as the water carried me away before a wall collapsed on me," Kompas daily newspaper quoted Zaini as saying.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "I no longer remember how I survived. I only drank water around me because I could not move my body."
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