Screen capture of a video showing a human chain rescuing Josh McQuoid from the ocean.
Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of the Highland Towers tragedy. Here, we remember the event by saluting ordinary folks who became heroes when they saved others' lives – by helping turn victims into survivors.
IT'S been two decades since the Highland Towers in Ulu Klang, Selangor, collapsed on Dec 11, 1993. A nation waited in anguish as rescuers searched for survivors, with reports of voices calling from under the rubble for a whole week until they were heard no more. Forty-eight people perished. Only two survived: an Indonesian national Umi Rashidah Khoruman, 22, and her daughter Nur Hamidah Najib, 18 months, pulled out after rescuers spotted a hand waving a stick through the wreckage. Not all rescue missions have a sad ending and here are just a few from around the world that are simply astonishing.
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