In this photo taken by a tourist Eric Skitzi from England, tourists on a safety place inside Casuarina Beach Hotel looks at the tsunami waves hit at the shore of a resort in Penang, northwestern Malaysia,
at around 1 pm in local time (0500GMT) on December 26. The resort hotel lifeguards noticed waves were huge and sounded warning to all tourists around the hotel beach area to run to the safety area. The Malaysian government on Wednesday
cancelled New Year celebrations nationwide, urging people to pray this weekend that the country will be spared from future disasters such as the recent tsunamis that killed at least 65 Malaysians.
— AP/PTI
