A British schoolgirl, who recognized signs of an imminent tsunami and save about 100 tourists at a Thai beach, will return for a memorial service a year since the disaster. Deputy Prime Minister Suwat Liptapanlop said on Wednesday, that Tilly Smith, who is now 11, would come to Thailand with her family for the event on Dec. 26. Two weeks before coming to Thailand for a vacation Smith had studied tsunamis in her geography class in Oxshott. It’s a small community just south of London. On Dec. 26, 2004, when her family went for a morning walk on a Phuket beach, Smith realized the warning signs that a tsunami was coming. She saw ‘bubbling on the water and foam sizzling just like in a frying pan’. She told her parents and staff at the hotel, which spread the warning. The beach was evacuated a few minutes before the waves struck. The beach, where Smith and her family stayed, was one of the few on Phuket island, where no one was killed.

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