Video shows wall of water engulf busy street
An amateur video taken as a tsunami swept through Indonesia’s Aceh province and aired on national television for the first time today showed a roiling torrent of dark brown water engulfing a busy street, picking up cars and minivans and sending people scrambling up the sides of buildings.
The video, shown by Metro TV, was taken by an amateur cameraman named Munawar, who had intended to tape a wedding but instead shot a horrific record of the unfolding disaster from the minutes after a giant undersea earthquake toppled buildings to a scene of a long line of corpses covered with cloth in the aftermath of the wave.
