City of corpses stunned by quake and tsunami blows

THE streets of Banda Aceh are filled with overturned cars and the rotting corpses of adults and children.

Office buildings and the only shopping mall lie in rubble. Thousands of homeless families huddle together in mosques and schools.

A day after their city was hit by the most powerful earthquake in 40 years, still-shocked residents of the Indonesian provincial capital struggled to comprehend the enormity of what had happened.