4/17/2023 0 Comments Oceans fury unleashed![]() “This is the mass grave situated close to our residence blocks. ![]() ![]() ![]() My children, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, they all have gone and left me alone here,” Siti Aminah, 72, told AFP. “None of my family members survived in the tsunami. Prayers were said in mosques throughout the staunchly Islamic province, and beside mass graves near the local capital of Banda Aceh.Īt the site of one of the graves, where more than 14,000 unidentified victims are buried, an elderly woman sat on the ground weeping and reciting Koranic verses for the 40 members of her family who died. A solemn day of prayers and remembrance to mark one of the world’s worst natural disasters was held in Indonesia’s Aceh province, which lost almost 170,000 people in the Asian Tsunami of December 26, 2004. BANDA ACEH, Decem(AFP) – People across Asia paused Saturday to remember the day five years ago when an undersea earthquake unleashed a devastating wave that killed more than 220,000 people.
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