Recounting the day the tsunami hit


Miracle baby: Thulaashi had been washed out to sea on a mattress as a toddler, before being brought back in the second wave.

GEORGE TOWN: It has been 20 years, but emergency first responder Ng In Heang (pic, below) still thinks about the little girl he tried to save in the aftermath of the tsunami.

He was in a Civil Defence Force ambulance when a frantic mother stopped them, screaming for help because her daughter was not breathing. The child, caught in the waves, had been rescued but was unresponsive.

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