Gunfire echoes through tsunami-hit city

Gunfire echoed through the main tsunami-hit city on Indonesia’s Sumatra island today, underscoring the threat to the scores of foreigners helping victims of the disaster that struck two weeks ago.

Indonesian authorities blamed separatist rebels for the incident near the UN compound in Banda Aceh, where relief workers have gathered to help survivors of the earthquake and tsunami that killed 150,000 people in Africa and Asia.