Ignesious’s Story Ignesious was completely unaware on the morning of 26th December, sleeping peacefully when his wife woke him up at 6 am, after she left an earthquake. As a precautionary measure, he removed the television set from the table and placed it on the ground, in order to save it from falling off the table.
Then, the entire family rushed out of their house. However, as the tremors of the earthquake stopped, they were shocked to see the sea levels rising. They were utterly confused, not knowing what was happening. In this confusion, they started to run in a chaotic fashion. Half of his family members ran in one direction and the others ran in the opposite direction. He never saw his wife, here father, brother and his two children ever again. Perhaps they were swept away and were now dead. Luckily, his three children that accompanied him were saved.
The Story of Sanjeev and Meghna
Sanjeev was a policeman in the Katchall island of the Nicobar group of islands. He managed to save himself, his wife and his baby daughter from the waves. However, after he jumped into the sea, hearing the Guesthouse cook, John’s wife screaming, he failed to save either the cook’s wife or himself. Both of them got drowned in the gush of the waves. Meghna along with her parents and seventy seven other people was swept away by the wave.
However, she kept floating in the sea for two days. For two days, she held on to a wooden door, which kept her afloat and saved her. During these two days, several times she saw the rescue helicopters, but they couldn’t see her. Later, she was brought to the shore by another very strong wave. Meghna was just thirteen when she had to go through the pain of having lost her parents.
Almas Javed’s Story
Ten years old, Almas Javed, had lost both her parents as well as her grandfather. On that had last morning. Almas’s father was the sea water moving back than it’s usual point. He was sure that the water would come back with a greater fore. He woke everyone up and tried to rush out the family, to a safer place, but is was too late by then. In a attempt to save to grandfather, Almas’s father too, was swept away by the waves.
Alams fainted at the sight of this great loss. She was later rescued and taken to a hospital in Kamorta and then to Port Blair, but she continues to be in a traumatic condition and refuses to talk about the incident. Almas’s mother and aunts climbed to the leaves of a coconut tree, but the waves uprooted the entire tree.