Fed: Survivors tell harrowing tales of tsunami

AAP General News (Australia)
12-30-2004
Fed: Survivors tell harrowing tales of tsunami

A Sydneysider has told of his harrowing experience in Phi Phi island when the devastating
tsunami hit the Thai resort island.

28-year-old MLADEN VIDIC, who arrived home from Phuket today, was sailing to Phi Phi
when the giant wave hit.

The boat arrived on the island to find it a rubble-ridden mess.

As it turned back, a fisherman asked the crew to look after a blood-soaked, semi-conscious
woman he had pulled from the water.

Mr VIDIC says he saw she had a rusty-four-inch nail protruding from her throat.

He worked to stop the bleeding for the entire journey, gazing constantly at her face
to monitor the signs of life.

The woman was taken away by hotel officials when the boat arrived back in Phuket, but
Mr VIDIC does not know if she lived.

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