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Parts of Banda Aceh City were deserted, especially the downtown area near the waterfront, where buildings were flattened by the massive December 26 quake and killer tsunami. Small fires smouldered in a desperate attempt to burn stacks of debris. The Indonesian health ministry said almost 400,000 peo...

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Published inThe Courier-mail
Main Author Darren Whiteside and Dean Yates
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brisbane, Qld Nationwide News Pty Ltd 05.01.2005
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Summary:Parts of Banda Aceh City were deserted, especially the downtown area near the waterfront, where buildings were flattened by the massive December 26 quake and killer tsunami. Small fires smouldered in a desperate attempt to burn stacks of debris. The Indonesian health ministry said almost 400,000 people were now refugees in Aceh, a province of about four million at the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. More than 94,000 have died there, the shocking death toll the worst of all the nations hit by the tsunami. The towns of Meulaboh and Calang, which bore the full force of the magnitude 9 quake and the tsunami which followed on Boxing Day, were once both district capitals but little now remains.
ISSN:1322-5235