Disease fear as heavy rain falls on corpse-littered province

Heavy rain fell on Indonesia’s corpse-littered city of Banda Aceh today, creating the conditions for cholera and other waterborne diseases to spread and adding to the misery of the thousands made homeless by the quake and tsunamis.

A steady stream of foreign military aircraft – including the first Blackhawk helicopters off of a US aircraft carrier – touched down at the airport close to the provincial capital Banda Aceh with emergency aid. But officials acknowledged distribution networks were not in place to deliver the supplies to the most hard-hit areas.