Hunger stalks survivors of the tsunami | Reuters.com

Hunger stalks survivors of the tsunami | Reuters.com
Survivors Face Hunger as Muslim Festival Nears
Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:39 PM ET (Page 1 of 3)
By Jerry Norton and Karima Anjani

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Hunger stalks survivors of the tsunami in outlying villages of Indonesia, the United Nations said, as the death toll from the Indian Ocean disaster soared above 226,000.
In a seaside town on the coast of Indonesia's northern Sumatra island that lay directly in the path of the Dec. 26 wave, prayers rang out at sunrise on Thursday for the first time since the disaster from a mosque pockmarked with holes from the force of the wave.
Street stalls in Banda Aceh, capital of hardest-hit Aceh province on Sumatra's northern tip, bustled as shopkeepers sold pineapples, tomatoes, bright red chilies, purple scallions and sides of meat for a major Muslim festival at the end of the week.

But many elsewhere in the region were not so fortunate."

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