Talk:Teunom

Leuser International Foundation reported: (1/1/5)

MEULABOH CRIPPLED; CALANG AND TEUNOM VANISH
Mike Griffiths, Vice Chairman of the Foundation (LIF), accompanied by Tedi Gunawarman, Secretary General of the LIF, and Nijar Tarigan, a Medan-based LIF staff, made a special survey by air over the disaster area in NAD on 28 December 2004. They found that the damage on the west coast was greater than expected. The road to Meulaboh was crippled and the town of Meulaboh itself was at least 60% destroyed. Meanwhile, the towns of Teunom in West Aceh district and Calang in Aceh Jaya district had vanished completely leaving only scattered shards of concrete to show where these towns of about 12,000 people once stood. It is feared that the death toll in NAD may reach 80,000 or more.

ABCNews quoting Associated Press reported: (January 2, 2005)

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia Jan 2, 2005

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As the relief efforts drove deeper into the sprawling disaster zone, American pilots had some of the first glimpses of wrecked Sumatran coastal villages such as Kuede Teunom, where survivors in tattered clothing grabbed at bottles of water dropped from helicopters.

Officials said 8,000 of Keude Teunom's 18,000 residents were killed in the disaster.