For two hours, Mr Ng Kok Choong crouched in the darkness of a half-collapsed hotel comforting an Indonesian woman trapped by a fallen concrete slab, as tremors continued to shake the ground.
The Singaporean was in Palu for a paragliding competition when a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the capital of Central Sulawesi province in Indonesia last Friday.
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