Jet Li is safe!
印尼大地震引發的海嘯,令不少地區滿目瘡痍,死傷無數。而身在馬爾地夫的李連杰一家四口一度與親友失去聯絡,幸好報上平安,令擔心他們的人鬆一口氣。李連杰此次與利智及兩愛女及好友去馬爾地夫準備享受開心假期,結果完全被海嘯破壞。
Chinese kung fu film star Jet Li, who was in the Maldives on holiday,called his Hong Kong agent to report he and his family are safe.
Massive rescue operations were scrambled along Asia's devastated coastlines as the death toll from a powerful earthquake (9.0) and the giant tsunamis it unleashed rose to almost 23,000 and hopes faded for many thousands more still missing.
Horrific scenes of destruction met emergency teams as bodies piled up by the hour from Sri Lanka to India, Indonesia to Thailand, while international aid agencies rushed food and clothing to hundreds of thousands left homeless. Hundreds of rescue ships, helicopters and planes were mobilised to evacuate tourists from wrecked resorts and airlift stricken victims to hospitals already overflowing with the wounded and corpses.
The trail of devastation came after an earthquake erupted off Indonesia on Sunday, razing buildings in the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh and triggering giant tidal waves which battered the coasts of Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Indonesia, the Maldives, Myanmar and Malaysia.
Along with such disastrous news, Jet Li is reported missing in the Maldives, visiting a movie producer at the time. Due to the chaos caused by the earthquake and tsunami, information is limited.
The death toll in the massive tsunamis triggered by a powerful earthquake in South and Southeast Asia on Sunday has reached 22,477.
(Agencies)
Vocabulary:
Maldives :(馬爾地夫)
unleash: release or vent(釋放)
airlift: transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)(尤指緊急情況下或陸上交通斷絕時的空運, 空運物資)