Featured here is a selection of images from the tsunami-hit city of Banda Aceh, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra from the last two days.
An Acehnese woman looks out of a
hospital window in the tsunami-hit city
of Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island
of Sumatra January 5, 2005. Fresh
dangers stalked efforts to help millions
of tsunami victims on Wednesday as U.S.
Secretary of State Colin Powell voiced
his shock at the devastation he saw
touring the worst-hit areas in Indonesia.
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-
Hoon
REF: ACE33D2
An Acehnese patient sits in the corridor
of a hospital in the Indonesian
provincial capital of Banda Aceh January
5, 2005. The hungry scavenged for food
and water and the wounded flooded
hospitals in Indonesia's Aceh on
Wednesday, as a global relief effort
staggered to help survivors of the
tsunami catastrophe. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-
Hoon
REF: ACE101D
An Acehnese patient lies on a stretcher
in the corridor of a hospital in the
Indonesian provincial capital of Banda
Aceh January 5, 2005. The hungry
scavenged for food and water and the
wounded flooded hospitals in Indonesia's
Aceh on Wednesday, as a global relief
effort staggered to help survivors of
the tsunami catastrophe. REUTERS/Kim
Kyung-
Hoon
REF: ACE56D2
An Australian paramedic places ear plugs
in the ears of an Acehnese girl, who
suffered serious burns from a fire
following the massive tsunami, at the
airport in Banda Aceh, January 5, 2005
before she is transported out of the
tsunami-hit city. The hungry scavenged
for food and water and the wounded
flooded hospitals in Indonesia's Aceh on
Wednesday, as a global relief effort
staggered to help survivors of the
tsunami catastrophe. REUTERS/
Beawiharta
REF: ACE51D2R
Tsunami refugees stretch out their hands
to Second Class Petty Officer Ralph
Topete (L) of USS Abraham Lincoln
Carrier Strike Group from San Jose,
Califonia, at Krueng Raya, some 15 miles
northeast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia
January 3, 2005. The hungry scavenged
for food and water and the wounded
flooded hospitals in Indonesia's Aceh on
Wednesday, as a global relief effort
staggered to help survivors of the
tsunami catastrophe. REUTERS/Yuriko
Nakao
REF: LIN36D
An Indonesian identification tag is
placed on the body bag of a tsunami
victim in the tsunami-hit city of Banda
Aceh, on the Indonesian island of
Sumatra January 5, 2005. The hungry
scavenged for food and water and the
wounded flooded hospitals in Indonesia's
Aceh on Wednesday, as a global relief
effort staggered to help survivors of
the tsunami catastrophe. REUTERS/Yusuf
Ahmad
REF: ACE24D2
An Acehnese woman carries a mattress in
the provincial capital of Banda Aceh
January 4, 2005.The hungry scavenged for
food and water and the wounded flooded
hospitals in Indonesia's Aceh on
Wednesday, as a global relief effort
staggered to help survivors of the
tsunami catastrophe. REUTERS/Romeo
Ranoco
REF: ACE69D2
An Acehnese girl wears a mask while
queuing for potable drinking water
provided by the Australian military in
the tsunami-hit city of Banda Aceh, on
the Indonesian island of Sumatra January
5, 2005. The hungry scavenged for food
and water and the wounded flooded
hospitals in Indonesia's Aceh on
Wednesday, as a global relief effort
staggered to help survivors of the
tsunami catastrophe. REUTERS/Darren
Whiteside
REF: ACE07D2
An injured Acehnese boy is carried on a
stretcher at the airport in Banda Aceh,
on the Indonesian island of Sumatra
January 5, 2005 before being transported
out of Aceh to the city of Medan. The
hungry scavenged for food and water and
the wounded flooded hospitals in
Indonesia's Aceh on Wednesday, as a
global relief effort staggered to help
survivors of the tsunami catastrophe.
REUTERS/
Beawiharta
REF: ACE12D2
U.S. military personnel at Banda Aceh
airport carry an injured Acehnese boy
after he arrived from Aceh's tsunami-hit
west coast January 5, 2005. The United
States stepped up its diplomatic and
relief effort in tsunami countries,
sending Secretary of State Colin Powell
to the hardest-hit region and promising
more helicopters and field hospitals
would follow. REUTERS/
Beawiharta
REF: ACE16D2
An Acehnese mother carries her baby in a
military hospital in Banda Aceh January
4, 2005. The hungry scavenged for food
and water and the wounded flooded
hospitals in Indonesia's Aceh on
Wednesday, as a global relief effort
staggered to help survivors of the
tsunami catastrophe. REUTERS/
Beawiharta
REF: ACE16D2
The father of six year-old Marjani holds
his son's hand while he recovers from an
operation in a hospital in the tsunami-
hit city of Banda Aceh, on the
Indonesian island of Sumatra January 5,
2005. The hungry scavenged for food and
water and the wounded flooded hospitals
in Indonesia's Aceh on Wednesday, as a
global relief effort staggered to help
survivors of the tsunami catastrophe.
REUTERS/Darren
Whiteside
REF: ACE01D2
Injured Acehnese wait to be transported
out of tsunami-hit Banda Aceh to the
city of Medan at the airport in Banda
Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra
January 5, 2005. The hungry scavenged
for food and water and the wounded
flooded hospitals in Indonesia's Aceh on
Wednesday, as a global relief effort
staggered to help survivors of the
tsunami catastrophe. REUTERS/
Beawiharta
REF: ACE40D2
An Acehnese boy sits in front of a ship
swept ashore by the tsunami while
looking for his belongings at his
destroyed house in the Indonesian
provincial capital of Banda Aceh January
5, 2005. The hungry scavenged for food
and water and the wounded flooded
hospitals in Indonesia's Aceh on
Wednesday, as a global relief effort
staggered to help survivors of the
tsunami catastrophe. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-
Hoon
REF: ACE58D2
An Acehnese man is reunited with family
after he flew on a Singapore military
helicopter to deliver food to an
isolated village, devasted by a tsunami,
on Aceh's west coast on the Indonesian
island of Sumatra January 4, 2005. The
hungry scavenged for food and water and
the wounded flooded hospitals in
Indonesia's Aceh on Wednesday, as a
global relief effort staggered to help
survivors of the tsunami catastrophe.
REUTERS/Darren
Whiteside
REF: ACE53D2
Acehnese wait in a line for drinking
water provided by the Australian
military in the tsunami-hit city of
Banda Aceh, on the Indonesian island of
Sumatra January 5, 2005. The hungry
scavenged for food and water and the
wounded flooded hospitals in Indonesia's
Aceh on Wednesday, as a global relief
effort staggered to help survivors of
the tsunami catastrophe. REUTERS/
Darren
Whiteside
REF: ACE09D2
