A game gone wrong

You know those games where someone asks you, if your mother and girlfriend were drowning, who would you save? Well, sometimes the game goes really wrong...

This was reported by USA Today:

Mahado Mohamed Musa was in her concrete-block home with her two children when she saw the wall of water hurtling out of the Indian Ocean toward the fishing town of Hafun.

She had a split second to make a decision she says she will regret for the rest of her life: Should she carry her son or her daughter to safety?

Musa tells her story quietly and with little emotion as she squats in the shade of her makeshift plywood shelter. Khadra, her 2-year-old daughter, clings to her side. "When I saw the water, I took this one," she says, looking at Khadra, "and left the other." Her son, Mohamud, was bigger and had hurt his foot. "He was limping. So it was easier to carry her. I just couldn't carry both."

With Khadra tucked under her arm, Musa, 20, raced to higher ground. She sent her brother-in-law back for her son. He found Mohamud, 6, floating in the water, barely alive. He died that evening.

"I regret that decision," Musa says simply.