JAKARTA: An angry river of seawater and splintered houses that swept up cars and trees as it raced through the streets of Banda Aceh was shown yesterday in a newly-acquired amateur video of the tsunami disaster.
Beginning with dazed women in prayer after surviving destruction wrought by the huge tremor, the film captures the height of panic as people scramble up buildings to escape the torrents and ends with a row of cloth-covered corpses.
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