Former DPM speaks about losing his family to Highland Towers disaster


IT was a Saturday afternoon, and he was in the shower while his wife was with the baby.

Suddenly their 12-storey apartment block shook. She handed the little girl to the maid and told her to run. Maid and baby had barely passed the exit before the entire structure collapsed.

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