Annan shocked by tsunami devastation

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the devastation on Indonesia’s tsunami-battered Sumatra island was the worst he’s ever seen, as authorities there pulled 4,000 new bodies from the rubble bringing the overall death toll to nearly 150,000.

After flying over the Sumatra’s west coast, which was closest to the 9.0 magnitude quake, Annan said “I have never seen such utter destruction mile after mile. You wonder where are the people, what has happened to them.”