Mon, Jan 10, 2005 - Page 5 News List

Banda Aceh still `acute situation'

TRAUMATIZED Countless numbers of dead are still missing amid the debris from the disaster, but relief operations are helping the living get back on their feet

AP , Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Many in the staunchly Islamic region believe that Allah ordered the disaster as punishment to its 4.3 million people for failing to live up to His teachings.

"We have forgotten about Allah and this is what we get," said Ingli, who lost two nephews to the waves.

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