Djafaruddin says he has recovered from the trauma of collecting bodies when the world's deadliest tsunami devastated Indonesia's western coast two decades ago, but he still breaks down when thinking ...

We rode our motorbikes — my 17-year-old translator Mohammed and I — as far as we could down a rutted, muddy path to the village of Darussalam. We could see a fire a little way ahead and stopped at a ...

Just two weeks after a deadly tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean, killing more than 150,000 people and flattening large swaths of Indonesia’s Aceh province, the doors of Muhammadiyah University are ...

Tsunami waves brought and left PLTD Apung 1 in the middle of Banda Aceh on Dec 26, 2004. --fotoBERNAMA (2024) COPYRIGHT RESERVED Flying with the Malaysian Emergency Response Team, the first ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Ten years after a tsunami hit this city on Dec. 26, 2004, killing 167,000 people, roads and bridges have been rebuilt, there are houses on the beach, trees have grown back ...

Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, commemorating the deaths of tens of thousands killed when a tsunami decimated the ...

With more than 94,000 dead and 50,000 left homeless, the Banda Aceh region of Indonesia suffered the brunt of the natural disaster. But, despite the death and destruction that appear everywhere, there ...

Indonesian soldiers unload bodies of tsunami disaster victims at a mass grave in Banda Aceh, January 13, 2005 Djafaruddin says he has recovered from the trauma of collecting bodies when the world's ...