Abdul Hakeem

He told “around 4 a.m. in the morning, we felt a very strong earthquake which made us awake and my uncle shouted that water from sea is coming. So we evacuated. Wave hit the village and came back again. One woman named “Peerani” swept away by these waves. She was very old and could not rush out of her home timely. Initially two big waves hit the area but the third and last one was the most severe and went into the creek but stopped by mangrove forest. After dawn the sea water started receding which was knee deep initially after the tsunami waves receded. I remember the first wave struck approximately after half an hour of the earthquake shocks and there was approximately 10-20 minutes delay in each of three waves. The third one was the biggest as I mentioned earlier.