Once a Village, Now Nothing: Even the Bodies Are Gone
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Villages along the western coast of Aceh Province in Indonesia, where help was slow to arrive, appear to have suffered some of the worst losses in the tsunami.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- Survivors who were left with almost nothing after Hurricane Jeanne devastated this town buried unclaimed corpses in mud-clogged backyards yesterday and attacked aid trucks and even neighbors bringing them food.
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PANJWAI, Afghanistan -- The road to this southern Afghan farming town is wide, smooth and utterly empty, except for an occasional old man on a bicycle or a meandering herd of baby camels.
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BEIT HANOUN, Gaza  - The pockmarked house is deserted. Among the smashed furniture lie posters of women and children killed by Israeli shells two weeks ago.
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By SANDY SHORE  DENVER - The streets of New York have never looked so barren.  An occasional taxi or bus motors down a boulevard as people wander aimlessly among eerily vacant buildings. Soon, black helicopters loom overhead and armed soldiers close ranks on the streets below.
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BANIYANI, India -- It's an unused cornfield at the edge of an isolated village, an empty plot of earth that the police flattened with a backhoe and hosed down with a water tanker.
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BARRANQUILLA, Colombia -- In a cramped, hospital-white laboratory in this coastal Caribbean city, 200 neatly numbered boxes of human remains lie stacked to the ceiling, waiting for a lone forensic anthropologist to extract the secrets of their violent deaths.
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With thousands of decomposing bodies piled up in a temporary morgue on Thailand's southern coast, hope was fading Saturday that any of more than 6,000 foreigners still missing would be found alive.
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Huddled in hushed silence, an anxious crowd stood staring at the approaching motorboat. As six bloated corpses were pulled out and laid on the ground, the crisp morning air was shattered by the shrill wails of women who began to examine the bodies, in search of a missing family member.
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ARACATACA, Colombia -- It had been a long time, seemingly as long as the epidemic of insomnia or the chaotic flood that struck the fictional version of this forlorn town.
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By Dan Buglass rural affairs editor  THE days when farmers paid scant regard to the environment and their custody of the countryside are long gone.
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The menacing row of concrete towers where four of Katie Sistrunk's children were shot is almost all gone now, replaced by weeds and fields, mud and memories.
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Even the looters had shown a measure of respect for the dead. They stole only valuables: cash, perhaps a few passports, wallets, and watches.
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In one tsunami-hit Thai town, more than half of the 5,000-strong population are missing, police say.
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The rubble is starting to be carted away, but no money to rebuild has trickled into this part of south Lebanon. For now, the mayor of this village says he can do little but divide the 700 buildings and homes needing attention into three categories: totally, partially or slightly destroyed.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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The old school campus is dilapidated. There is little food, water from only a single tap, no toilets. Families sleep in the open or under tents made of scavenged tree branches and lengths of cloth used as skirts during the day.