INDONESIA: EMERGENCY AID TRICKLES INTO ACEH PROVINCE AFTER DEVASTATING TSUNAMI KILLED THOUSANDS

Record ID: 649286

  • Title: INDONESIA: EMERGENCY AID TRICKLES INTO ACEH PROVINCE AFTER DEVASTATING TSUNAMI KILLED THOUSANDS
  • Date: 29th December 2004
  • Summary: (W2) MEDAN, NORTH SUMATRA (DECEMBER 27, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF SOLDIERS STACKING FOOD SUPPLIES; SCU SACKS OF BASIC GOODS; SLV FOOD SUPPLIES WAITING TO BE LOADED INTO PLANE INSIDE HANGAR (4 SHOTS) 0.24 2. MV FORKLIFT CARRYING BOXES OF INSTANT NOODLES OUT OF HANGAR; MV SOLDIERS STANDING BY STACK OF BOXES 0.43 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) INDONESIAN VICE PRESIDENT JUSUF KALLA SAYING: "We have to ensure availability of food and medical supplies, and sanitation facility especially because an epidemic could strike even tomorrow if the problems with sanitation were not taken care of. We're also sending reinforcement of medics." 1.03 4. SV KALLA WALKING INSIDE MILITARY HANGAR WHERE EMERGENCY AID SUPPLIES ARE STORED 1.07 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Bahasa Indonesia) KALLA SAYING: "In Banda Aceh itself we estimate about five thousand to ten thousand people killed and there were just too many houses destroyed." 1.19 6. SLV SOLDIERS CLOSING CARGO DOOR OF PLANE TAKING SUPPLIES INTO ACEH; WIDE OF PLANE ON TARMAC (3 SHOTS) 1.38 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th January 2005 12:00
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  • Location: MEDAN, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVA2GIUU2E4T62G317BKPNERSTJF
  • Story Text: Emergency aid trickles into Aceh province after a
    devastating tsunami killed thousands.

    Emergency aid trickled into Indonesia's Aceh
    province where it is feared in excess of 10,000 people may
    have died from a tsunami.

    "We have to ensure availability of food and medical
    supplies, and sanitation facility especially because an
    epidemic could strike even tomorrow if the problems with
    sanitation were not taken care of. We're also sending
    reinforcement of medics," Vice President Jusuf Kalla said
    on Monday (December 27) after returning from Banda Aceh.

    The provincial capital of Aceh bore the brunt with
    10,000 people feared dead by Sunday's (December 26)
    earthquake-triggered tsunami that struck of the coast of
    Sumatra.

    "In Banda Aceh itself we estimate about 5,000 to 10,000
    people killed and there were just too many houses
    destroyed," Kalla said.

    The U.N. has warned of epidemics within days across
    southern Asia if health systems could not cope, saying the
    effects of disease could be as bad as the tsunami itself.


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