[Neo]

http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/sto...20041228XAI116

In Galle, Sri Lanka, officials used a loudspeaker atop a fire engine to tell residents to place bodies on the road for collection. Muslim families used cooking utensils and even their bare hands to dig graves. Hindus in India, abandoning their tradition of burning bodies, held mass burials.

Some dark humor for you - recall the scene from Monty Python's "Holy Grail" where they repeatedly bang on the pot and call out "bring out your dead!"

A new danger emerged Tuesday: UNICEF said uprooted land mines in Sri Lanka threatened to kill or maim aid workers and survivors. ``Mines were ... washed out of known mine fields, so now we don't know where they are,'' said Ted Chaiban, the Sri Lanka chief of UNICEF.

Now that really sucks.... You're walking along looking for survivors then all of a sudden KABLAMMO!!

The streets in Banda Aceh were filled with overturned cars and rotting corpses. Shopping malls and office buildings lay in rubble, and thousands of homeless families huddled in mosques and schools.

...Adil was making sandcastles with his younger sister, Reeze, while Haalima sat in her home Sunday morning. Haalima said the girl ran to her complaining that waves had crushed their castles, then came screams and water entered the home. ``When we looked, there was no shore anymore and no Adil,'' she said.

...For most people around the shores across the region, the only warning Sunday of the disaster came when shallow coastal waters disappeared, sucked away by the approaching tsunami, before returning as a massive wall of water. The waves wiped out villages, lifted cars and boats, yanked children from the arms of parents and swept away beachgoers, scuba divers and fishermen.

...Hundreds of thousands have lost everything, and millions face a hazardous future because of polluted drinking water, a lack of sanitation and no health services, he said.