INDONESIA: An Indonesian woman who was plucked from the sea after clinging to a palm tree for five days heard yesterday that she is 18 weeks pregnant with her first child.
"I'm very glad, very happy," 25-year-old Malawati said from her hospital bed in the Malaysian island of Penang after doctors gave her the news.
The farmer from Indonesia's Aceh province, which was among the worst hit by the disaster, said she could not wait to share the news with her husband of four years and relatives, although she was not sure how many of them had survived. When the waves swept her out to sea, Malawati clung to a sago palm and lived off its fruit before being rescued. - (Reuters)
