Posted on 12/29/2004 5:00:35 AM PST by kattracks
MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) — Three quarters of the western coastline on Indonesia's Sumatra island is destroyed, and some towns were totally wiped out by this week's earthquake and tsunamis, a military official who visited the region said Wednesday."The damage is truly devastating," said Maj. Gen. Endang Suwarna, the military of commander of the island's Aceh province, who toured the coast by helicopter Wednesday. "Seventy-five percent of the west coast is destroyed and some places its 100 percent. These people are isolated and we will try and get them help."
The area around the town of Meulaboh — a fishing village of 40,000 residents — bore the brunt of Sunday's 9.0 magnitude earthquake, which sent massive tidal waves thundering across the Indian Ocean that killed more than 60,000 people in a dozen countries.
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said officials have recovered 3,400 bodies from Meulaboh, and other officials said they expect to find at least 10,000 in that town alone.
Indonesia's official death toll of almost 33,000 does not yet include those killed in districts on the West coast.
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From the AP....Guess it's hard for them to give Allah credit for this one....
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