‘We felt the ship was like a basketball being bounced’


Stuck on shore: Children walking past ‘Sabuk Nusantara’ in Wani village on the outskirts of Palu. — AP

WANI: The captain and crew sailing the Sabuk Nusantara ferry to new owners on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi got the task done and then some.

The hulking red and yellow ship was bounced like a basketball as a massive earthquake rocked the region and it landed in front of a row of houses in the village of Wani, dumped by tsunami waves that the crew say were a towering 15m or higher.

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