A TENBURY Wells couple who lived through the Twin Towers attacks and last October's earthquakes in Japan have again miraculously escaped with their lives - this time from the Asian tsunami.

Bill and Christine Dance were holidaying in the Maldives when the killer waves struck on Boxing Day.

And after their previous experiences they say they must have their own guardian angel.

"I don't want to overdramatise but it was very frightening," said Mr Dance.

"We were at the Taj Exotica Hotel on a small island and well settled in after a good Christmas.

"Walking to breakfast from our waterside bungalow, which was on stilts, Christine noticed that the tide was unusually high.

"It swept over the walkways and we realised we were in big trouble. My wife managed to hoist herself onto a balcony and I grabbed and hung onto a post in the rising water."

The couple were rescued by hotel staff and was later put on the first of many planes that eventually got them back to the UK.

They returned to their Menith Wood home on December 29, where they were left wondering how they happen to be in the wrong places at the wrong time.

"We were in New York and shopping in Fifth Avenue when the attacks on the World Trade Centre were carried out, and on the ninth floor of a department store in Japan when the country was rocked by a series of earthquakes," added Mr Dance

"Our family has suggested that before we go on our next holiday, we must inform the United Nations."