John M. Glionna (November 11, 2009). Indonesia teen who amputated his leg recalls earthquake ordeal. Los Angeles Times. From http://www.latimes.com
Recalling the earthquake 7.6 magnitude in Indonesia by the sad story of a right-broken- leg boy. He was studied with sixth-grade education, unable to find job in the West Java village of 15000 people. Ralam left home, and took a construction job in the Sumatran city of Padang. On the evening of Septemper 30, he was living with 18 workers on the seventh floor, and ran for the stairway of the unfinished building because the building was shaken by earthquake that killed more than 1000 people and destroyed city. He didn't escape from this building because a wall crashed down on him. He made decision to escape by begging his wokers around him cut his right leg. One of them is a 18-year-old boy Raman accepted his words and cut his leg. After that Ralam was brought to hospital, and came over the dangerous operation.
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