BERNAMA – Malaysian Student Walks Five Km To Safety Following Earthquake
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 (Bernama) — A Malaysian student in Padang, Sumatra had to walk five kilometres from her rented house to Gunung Tangilun, a green zone, to seek shelter after a powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake rocked the area Wednesday.
Fashareena Nazir, a second-year medical student at Universitas Andalas said she was resting when she was abruptly woken by the quake at about 6pm.
“There were rumbles and a loud noise, like a bang,” she told Bernama in a phone conversation.
Fashareena, 23, from Ampang Jaya, said realising it was an earthquake, she quickly grabbed her belongings, passport and other documents and ran out of the house.
Her four other Malaysian housemates also rushed out of the single-storey bungalow to the compound for safety.
She said the house now had cracks and uneven floor all over.
For their safety, Fashareena and her housemates walked to Gunung Tangilun to seek shelter from another university mate.
She said she was traumatised by what she saw — her neighbours’ houses were on fire, grounds caving in and some disappearing before her eyes.
via BERNAMA – Malaysian Student Walks Five Km To Safety Following Earthquake.
me, Gunaseelaan Letchumanan. Pre medic student in UNAND in Unand university with all my batch mate when the earth quake happened . as we have been there only for 2 months, we have no idea to do what also. the building all started to shake and the walls all start to collapse. when we saw every body started to run out of buildings, we were lucky as we were standing in open space, infront of gedung abcde. most of my friends started to panic and cry. although the earth quake last only about 20 or 30 second, but the damage it have done to our life will be lifetime…
only positive thing that happened after earth quqke is, all malaysian students support each other and cared for all of us. even the senior we never meet before,asked how are we, do we need more water or any medicine.Seniors who have motorbyce, risked their life to get us some water and food. after the earth quake, all of us was busy calling our senior to make sure they are safe…
now we are safe in malaysia because everybody helped everybody.THANKS FOR EVERY MALAYSIAN STUDENTS IN UNAND AND MALAYSIAN GOVERMENT….