Helicopters bring help to shattered province

HELP finally came from the sky yesterday for Indonesian villages washed flat by the tsunami a week ago, but no amount of aid could stop the loss of life.

Starving people besieged US and Indonesian military helicopters carrying food and clean water that managed to land for the first time along Sumatra’s north-west coast.

More than half of the 129,817 known victims of the killer waves perished there.