Towns Found Flattened in Sumatra
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36054-2004Dec30.html
Rescuers Push Into Remote Areas; Deaths in South Asia Hit 119,000
By Alan Sipress and Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, December 31, 2004; Page A01
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec. 30 -- Airborne military patrols scoured
inaccessible sections of Sumatra island Thursday and discovered that
swaths of land were inundated and roads, villages and bridges had
vanished. After helicopter flyovers, rescuers estimated more than
80,000 deaths in the region and described the scene as catastrophic.
Sumatra
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