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 LEUPUNG, Indonesia (AP) - Every morning Yahya leaves home with a hoe in hand. But he is not tending his coffee crops as he did before the tsunami slammed into Aceh's coastlines, killing 131,000 people: He is digging for bodies.
In the days after the killer waves, thousands of corpses were hastily buried across the province by survivors and volunteers. Nine months later, some at least are being given a more permanent resting place.
Yahya is one of 15 volunteers looking for badly decomposed remains that are scattered in shallow graves around Leupung, which was destroyed by the tsunami and lost some 90 percent of its 14,000 people.
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