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Sunday, January 02, 2005
Tsunami tempers flaring...
[Media Source*] It looks like nationals are becoming quite angry with the speed of help that they are receiving from the outside. Starving residents were besieging helicopters in remote Indonesian towns as dehydration, disease and hunger are setting in after the Tsunami incident. On some islands, police officials have gotten "man handled" (according to Reuters) in the desperation of people to acquire the appropriate necessities.
Photo by Reuters (Handout)
A village near the coast of Sumatra lays in ruin after the tsunami swept through and devastated the area, in Indonesia January 2, 2005. Helicopters assigned to CVW-2 and Sailors from Abraham Lincoln are conducting humanitarian operations in the wake of the tsunami that struck South East Asia. U.S. and Indonesian military helicopters were swarmed by starving villagers as flight crews threw out boxes of bottled water and food. A week after giant waves swamped parts of Indonesia the water is only just beginning to drain away to reveal the full extent of the horrific destruction and yet more bodies to count.
Reuters goes on to report with more details.
Tropical rains in Indonesia's northern Aceh province, with more than half of the known dead, and flooding in Sri Lanka compounded the misery for survivors and created more problems for troops and aid workers trying to deliver relief.
"We already lost our homes. We came here then the rains came and took away our bundles, everything we had left," said G.K. Sambasivam, 65, a Sri Lankan still searching for missing relatives in a country that has lost some 30,000 citizens.
Tempers flared in India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, where outside access was still being restricted while hundreds of bodies lay decomposing in the open.
Hopefully aid can meet the demands of the nationals lest more people die from lack of food and medical supplies. Below are more picture summaries courtesy of Reuters.
Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
An Acehnese girl eats while staying at a makeshift refugee camp in Banda Aceh, on the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on January 2, 2005.
Photo by Reuters (Handout)
An Indonesian Army Commando tosses supplies from a U.S. helicopter during humanitarian operations in a village near the coast of Sumatra, in Indonesia, January 2, 2005.
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