Luthgardo Niedo (Dona Paz survivor)

Acting

The Philippines

1 movies

Biography

Luthgardo Niedo is a former soldier of the Philippine Constabulary and survivor of the MV Doña Paz tragedy on December 20, 1987. Niedo has a wife and three children. Niedo claimed he was the first to jump into the water to flee the burning Doña Paz, whilst also claiming he tried to save a drowning girl before being swept away by a wave.

🎬 Luthgardo Niedo (Dona Paz survivor)'s Filmography

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The passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. Just five days before Christmas in 1987, the passenger ship Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker off Mindoro Island in the Philippines. 4,000 passengers died in the tragedy. It was the world's worst peacetime maritime disaster. Through dramatic first hand accounts from survivors and rescuers, transcripts from the Philippine congressional inquiry into the tragedy, archival footage and photos and a re-enactment of the collision, dissect the unfolding tragedy of Doña Paz.

Asia's Titanic

2009