- Title: INDONESIA: AERIALS OF DESTRUCTION IN ACEH PROVINCE AFTER ASIAN TSUNAMI
- Date: 8th January 2005
- Summary: (W3) VARIOUS LOCATIONS, ACEH PROVINCE, INDONESIA (JANUARY 8, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. AERIALS OF VARIOUS OF DESTRUCTION ACROSS BANDA ACEH TOWN 0.53 2. AERIALS OF VARIOUS OF DESTRUCTION ACROSS EASTERN COASTLINE OF ACEH PROVINCE 1.35 4. AERIALS FLOODED RIVER/ DESTROYED RIVER BANKS 1.45 5. AERIALS OF WAVES HITTING DESTROYED COASTLINE 2.02 6. AERIALS OF VARIOUS OF DESTRUCTION ACROSS MEULABOH TOWN WITH SMOKE BILLOWING FROM BURNING BUILDINGS/ RUBBLE 2.44 7. AERIALS OF VARIOUS OF NAVAL SHIPS PARKED OUTSIDE MEULABOH COASTLINE 2.53 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: VARIOUS LOCATIONS, ACEH PROVINCE, INDONESIA
- Country: Indonesia
- Reuters ID: LVAAHJXL81FW587W61TMN8O5O0MW
- Story Text: Rare aerial footage shows scale of destruction
across Indonesia's Aceh province.
Rare aerial footage shot by a Reuters camera crew on
Saturday (January 8) shows the scale of destruction across
Indonesia's Aceh province.
Nearly two weeks after monster waves hammered the
coasts of Indian Ocean nations, hardest-hit Indonesia was
still pulling thousands of bodies out of the rubble. Its
toll rose to more than 104,000.
In an unprecedented response to the widest-ranging
natural calamity in living memory, governments and agencies
have pledged more than $5 billion in aid. Corporations and
private individuals, from Hollywood stars and professional
athletes to children donating lunch money, have promised
$1.5 billion more.
Rich nations pledged on Friday to suspend debt
repayments by tsunami-hit nations, which may free resources
for rebuilding.
World Bank President James Wolfensohn, visiting Sri
Lanka, said the Bank was also considering debt relief and
would address the issue soon.
He also said the Bank could hand out up to $1.5 billion
in aid but cautioned he was concerned about how funds are
spent.
Forty nations lost nationals in the catastrophe in
addition to the 13 countries swamped by the tsunami. Some
7,500 foreign tourists are dead, missing or unaccounted
for.
Sri Lanka lost 30,000 people to the waves. India and
Thailand were also badly hit, but most of the tsunami's
more than 156,000 victims died in Aceh, on the northern tip
of Sumatra island.
Whole swathes of Aceh, along the remote but populous
west coast that faced the waves, are still out of contact.
Separatists have been fighting the Indonesian army in
Aceh for three decades and fresh clashes this week have
sparked concern that renewed fighting would disrupt aid and
give the military an opportunity to cement its control over
the province.
U.S. Navy helicopters dropped rice on Saturday to
desperate survivors in Meulaboh, Aceh, about 150 km (90
miles) from the epicentre of the powerful undersea quake.
The United Nations estimates one-third of Meulaboh's
120,000 people were killed. Nothing is known about people
further south.
A U.S. embassy spokesman said the Seahawk helicopters
had flown 197 missions and dropped 190 tonnes of aid so far
in Aceh.
Hundreds of aid groups are setting up operations in
Banda Aceh, a once-thriving city of 300,000 people that is
now home to a growing number of refugees.
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