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This 12 months, Boxing Day marks the 20th anniversary of the tsunami that precipitated 230,000 deaths round South East Asia.
So with the Day by day on a short break, we’re replaying an episode of Storycast which tells the story of Martunis.
On 26 December 2004, one of many deadliest disasters in historical past struck when tsunami waves had been triggered by an enormous earthquake.
A Sky Information digicam crew would uncover an eight-year-old boy named Martunis among the many devastation.
Their subsequent report was seen by Cristiano Ronaldo – the Portuguese soccer star, recognized to many as the best participant of his technology, however much less so for his function on this exceptional survival story.
Martunis has advised his story in full for the primary time in Miracle Boy, the first episode of StoryCast ’21 – a Sky Information podcast collection telling 21 extraordinary private tales from a few of the largest information occasions of the century.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Digital manufacturing: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
