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MALAYSIAN TOURISTS VISIT TSUNAMI-DEVASTATED AREAS IN ACEH
Banda Aceh, May 3 (ANTARA) - Some Malaysian tourists visited some of the areas in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) which had been devastated by a tsunami on December 26, 2004.
"We came to Aceh to see a number of tsunami-affected areas. We saw a lot of things during my two-day visit in Aceh, including the boat that perched on a house of a residents," one of the Malaysian tourists, Ruhaida Bin Kassim, said in Banda Aceh over the weekend.
The tsunami, the worst known in human history, destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings of the government, private business companies and the people, and more than 200,000 people were killed and had gone missing.
And also hundreds of thousands of public facilities including schools in Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar, Aceh Jaya, Aceh Barat, Aceh Barat Daya, and in a number of regencies/cities, had been destroyed or seriously damaged by the earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale which triggered the tsunami.
The areas visited by the Malaysian tourists included Ulee
Lheu, the tomb of Syech Abdurrauf (Syiah Kuala), the floating diesel power plant PLTD B in Punge, and a student city some seven kilometers from Banda Aceh.
A mosque at the Ulee Lheu beach, which survived the destructive tsunami, was one of the miracles amidst the many buildings around it were destroyed in the holocaust.
The tourists from Kuala Lumpur also visited several handicraft centers in the province.
"We came to Aceh to see a number of tsunami-affected areas. We saw a lot of things during my two-day visit in Aceh, including the boat that perched on a house of a residents," one of the Malaysian tourists, Ruhaida Bin Kassim, said in Banda Aceh over the weekend.
The tsunami, the worst known in human history, destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings of the government, private business companies and the people, and more than 200,000 people were killed and had gone missing.
And also hundreds of thousands of public facilities including schools in Banda Aceh, Aceh Besar, Aceh Jaya, Aceh Barat, Aceh Barat Daya, and in a number of regencies/cities, had been destroyed or seriously damaged by the earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale which triggered the tsunami.
The areas visited by the Malaysian tourists included Ulee
Lheu, the tomb of Syech Abdurrauf (Syiah Kuala), the floating diesel power plant PLTD B in Punge, and a student city some seven kilometers from Banda Aceh.
A mosque at the Ulee Lheu beach, which survived the destructive tsunami, was one of the miracles amidst the many buildings around it were destroyed in the holocaust.
The tourists from Kuala Lumpur also visited several handicraft centers in the province.
