Indonesian death toll rises above 32,000 as more bodies found

The military was preparing to dig mass graves today on Indonesia’s battered Sumatra Island, where the government said the official death toll from an earthquake and tsunamis had reached more than 32,000.

Food shortages and disease, meanwhile, in the capital of Aceh province on Sumatra’s northern tip posed looming threats as government officials expressed concerns that aid was not reaching the quake-devastated city of Banda Aceh fast enough.