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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Dessy SAGITA

'We Couldn't Find Their Bodies': Indonesian Tsunami Survivors Mourn The Dead

A woman comforts her daughter after prayers at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh (Credit: AFP)

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 area two decades ago.

The relatives of the victims sat in a circle on the grass at Siron mass grave, where the bodies of 46,000 people were buried.

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