May Lau was jolted awake by loud, urgent knocking on her cabin door in the early hours of Friday – and she knew immediately something was wrong.
“They were knocking so loudly, I thought there was no way this was a drill,” she said in Mandarin.
“They told us to get up as soon as we could. I could smell the smoke in the air and I knew there was a problem. We didn’t even have time to take our things.”
A fire had broken out on deck nine of the World Legacy, a Liberia-registered cruise ship, as it…
