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| Tilly Smith, 10, of Britain, who is credited with saving 100
lives by alerting people of coming waves during the 2004 tsunami
smiles during the first anniversary of the Asian disaster in Phuket,
southern Thailand. |
Tilly Smith, the 11-year-old British girl, who was called as "Angel of
the Beach", saved 100 tourists from a Thai beach hit by last year's
tsunami and has been named Child of the Year by readers of a French
children's newspaper.
She came ahead of a South African Aids orphan, a six-year-old girl who
survived a kidnapping by paedophiles and a young Parisian pop singer to
win the Mon Quotidien award.
Tilly had studied tsunamis with her geography teacher, Andrew Kearney,
shortly before flying to Thailand for a holiday with her parents and
younger sister last year.
As she watched the waves suddenly begin to recede, and the sea was
bubbling,she warned her mother, Penny, that the beach was about to be
struck by a tsunami. Mrs Smith and her husband, Colin, alerted other
holidaymakers and hotel staff and scores of people were cleared from
Maikhao beach at Phuket.
Tilly, now 11, and back in Thailand for anniversary commemorations of
the disaster, said: "It's really good, just to know about tsunamis or any
natural hazard in case you are in one.
"I'm very glad that I was able to say on the beach that a tsunami was
coming. And I'm glad that they listened to me."
She had earlier said that the state of the sea, which was "sizzling and
bubbling" was "exactly the same as in my geography lesson".
Tilly read a Thai poem entitled Tsunami at a candle-light vigil to commemorate victims of the
disaster.
She is unaware of her remarkable popularity among French children. Her
picture appears on the front page of Mon Quotidien, which is read by 10 to
14-year-olds.
"Our readers chose Tilly because they could identify with her," said
Fran?ois Dufour, the editor-in-chief. "To be a pop star at 11 seems
impossible, and the idea of having Aids or being kidnapped is remote from
their lives."
(Agencies) |
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Updated: 2005-12-31 09:31
