JAKARTA - AN INDONESIAN man said on Thursday that he had escaped both the 2004 tsunami in Aceh and last week's wave in Japan.
Doctoral student Zahrul Fuadi, 39, who is from the Indonesian province, was at a seminar at a university campus in Sendai when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck, triggering a tsunami that devastated Japan's north-eastern coast.
Seven years ago, the engineer had to flee from the wall of water that killed 168,000 people in his own country.
'I have survived two monumental disasters. I'm very grateful, not many people have experienced two big disasters and survived,' Mr Fuadi told AFP.
His house in Simpang Mesra village, Banda Aceh, was destroyed in the 2004 disaster, which followed a 9.3-magnitude quake.
Then, he said, 'we were at my house when the quake happened. Me, my wife and my two children escaped from the tsunami by riding a motorcycle. We went very far from my house because we were so afraid. -- AFP
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